If I was going to meet the new Baghdad, I'd have to put some old habits and memories to the side. My first day back I spread out a map of the city on a table in a shaded inner courtyard.

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 ...

Narrator: In 762, the city of Baghdad was established by Al-Mansur. The centre was a perfect circle. The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with over one million inhabitants.

But a few held on. Today, as Baghdad looks to a brighter future, historic cafes of the old city are enticing a new generation. De Rose, in Karada district, is one of the new wave of bright ...

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 ...