Baghdad was largely closed to international travelers for four decades before Iraq introduced electronic tourist visas in ...

Diaries and writings from ninth-century Baghdad provide a glimpse of the weird weather from the era, findings that could help researchers reconstruct past climate. The surviving documents were written ...

When is a battery not a battery? When it's a Baghdad battery. Some "weird history" authors and armchair archaeologists have claimed that a group of artifacts discovered in 1938 were ancient "batteries ...

Fly over Baghdad, Iraq, the historic "City of Peace" nestled along the banks of the Tigris River. The drone captures the gleaming golden domes of the Al-Kadhimiya Mosque. For more videos like this, ...

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Compared with the ancient Mesopotamian capital of Babylon 55 miles to the south, Baghdad is a new city. It appeared as a settlement next to the Tigris in pre-Islamic times, at least by 1800 B.C. But ...

BAGHDAD — An international archaeological mission has uncovered the remnants of what is believed to be a 5,000-year-old restaurant or tavern in the ancient city of Lagash in southern Iraq. The ...

"This exhibition is about rare and precious Qurans, dating back to the first century of the Hijra, written on parchment, before paper was produced, and the subsequent periods, by the hands of great ...