Without accurate records, it can be difficult to establish when population levels shifted throughout time, but researchers ...

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 ...

A fragile stability has emerged since the defeat of IS in 2017 that has allowed a greater focus on Baghdad's infrastructure ...

Baghdad at the time was the largest city in ... and the part played by Islamic society in passing knowledge on from ancient civilisations to Europe. Why were so many new discoveries made in ...

The history book that will transform your view of early civilisation - IN FOCUS: Forget the Silk Roads, it’s the Golden Road ...

Assyrian Americans got an influx of attention when former President Donald Trump mangled the word “Assyrian” while giving a ...

Iraqi environmentalists have warned that action is needed to tackle pollution in Baghdad, as monitoring organisations declared the capital to have some of the most toxic air quality in the world.

The name “Iraq” has ancient origins, probably from the Sumerian ... to the murder of Iraq’s last royal family at a palace in ...

The Ancient Church of the East is set to inaugurate its new Patriarch, His Grace, Mar Gewargis Younan, in a ceremony to be held in Baghdad on 9 June 2023. Nassem Sadiq spoke to His Grace ...

Baghdad (AFP) – An Iraqi professor leading a group of students on a walking tour of Baghdad's historic centre invites them to stop and admire a centuries-old stone wall erected to shield the ...