Baghdad was the jewel of the Abbasid world—rich, prestigious, and convinced it could survive any enemy. But when the caliph refused to submit, the Mongols arrived with massive armies, Chinese siege ...

Trump's peace plan has been widely praised, but it's the Abraham Accords that lay the groundwork for Middle East ...

A public trial was held in the royal court. Banabhatta was found guilty, dismissed from his position as court poet and expelled from the court. The emperor then uttered his famous remark: the greatest ...

Passionately committed to exploring the inherent properties, color, and luminosity of form, Maira Abbasi creates work that moves seamlessly between many approaches. Maira’s paintings draw us into an ...

A once-domed 10th-century reception hall with an octagon-shaped pool at the center was part of the hammam in Aghmat.(Sara Toth Stub) Fifteen years ago, retired archaeologist Ronald Messier, who had ...

These ruins of a church were once part of the huge palatine complex in Reccopolis, a rare urban settlement founded by the Visigoths in Spain. One consequence of this turmoil was that, across most of ...

The story of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, which depicts the era of the Abbasid state and its historical glory, focusing on the personal life of the Abbasid caliph who was famous for his ...