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 ...

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.

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.

The discovery took place in 1936, by workers from the Iraqi State Railways Department, on a hill in Kujut Rabua, a village southeast of Baghdad, in an old tomb they had just unearthed. The site is ...

Monumental FollySaddam Hussein’s 1980s “reconstruction” of Nebuchadrezzar II’s palace was built over the ruins of Babylon, near Baghdad ... s prestige. No ancient city was so desired ...

I live here in Baghdad – a city of over a million people and the ... and the part played by Islamic society in passing knowledge on from ancient civilisations to Europe. Why were so many new ...

The Baghdad Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250). The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just outside Baghdad and is composed of a clay jar ...

The Parthian Battery or Baghdad Battery is one of the most fascinating inventions of the ancient world preceding the batteries we use today.

An ancient Islamic nomad is giving up his camel ... He explains his reasons for a lifestyle change and why its facilities make Baghdad his city of choice. He talks pupils through his design ...