The Iraqi Minister of Culture stated on Sunday that efforts are being exerted to restore the ancient city of Nimrud in ...

The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...

Memories like these reenact themselves in my mind now as we drive through the city, and for a moment I imagine I've returned to Baghdad the way a ghost might haunt the world it once inhabited.

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

Dalrymple contends that ancient India transformed nations ... reflects his father's studies in Kashmir, helped plan Baghdad as a circular city, probably inspired by the mandala.

The ancient round city is located in the north, and to the west is Saddam International Airport. The roads in Baghdad are wide, particularly west of the Tigris, where many government buildings ...

In June 2014, ISIS launched an all-out offensive in northern and western Iraq, seizing large swathes of territory, including ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

The recent discovery of an inscribed clay tablet at the site of an ancient city near modern Baghdad has made possible the translation of a 3,500-year-old agricultural handbook ...

The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with ... The scholars worked together to translate ancient Roman and Greek texts on subjects like algebra, medicine, astronomy.

In a Baghdad arena, a crowd cheers to the rhythm of drums, not for a football match but for a fiery centuries-old game ...