Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic ...

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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 ...

In particular, the cities of Ur, Akkad, Nineveh (modern Mosul), Basra, and Baghdad were important centres for silk trade and production. In these cities the industry prospered due to the skill and ...

Announcing the release of From Babylon to Baghdad: Ancient Iraq and the Modern West, a free e-book published by the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS). This latest publication from BAS comes at a ...

The ancient city of Kish was occupied from at least as early as 3200 B.C. through the 7th century A.D. Located on the floodplain of the Euphrates River eighty kilometers south of modern Baghdad, the ...

Khamenei, at 86 years old, remains one of the longest-serving and bloodiest dictators in the modern world ... Today, Esmail Qaani’s arrival in Baghdad has once again dominated headlines across ...