Diaries and writings from ninth-century Baghdad provide a glimpse of the weird weather from the era, findings that could help researchers reconstruct past climate. The surviving documents were written ...

Diaries and writings from ninth-century Baghdad provide a glimpse of the weird weather from the era, findings that could help researchers reconstruct past climate. The surviving documents were written ...

"This exhibition is about rare and precious Qurans, dating back to the first century of the Hijra, written on parchment, before paper was produced, and the subsequent periods, by the hands of great ...

Baghdad — Donny George, director of the Iraq Museum, is sitting on a bench under a covered porch, talking about Baghdad’s glorious past. It is midafternoon and the sun is beating down on the museum’s ...

Compared with the ancient Mesopotamian capital of Babylon 55 miles to the south, Baghdad is a new city. It appeared as a settlement next to the Tigris in pre-Islamic times, at least by 1800 B.C. But ...

Given the political climate, it might seem like a bad idea to put on a play depicting a Middle Eastern tyrant killing a virgin every night. Henry MacCarthy — who, as a director, never seems to shy ...

Iraq’s government says Islamic State (IS) militants have begun bulldozing the remains of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq in their latest attack on the country’s historical ...

Record high temperatures will continue to be challenged across the Middle East this week as blistering heat and dry conditions remain over the region. Extreme heat was felt across the Middle East with ...

Mohaned Ahmed is standing on scaffolding at the ancient site of Babylon, dipping water into a bucket and sponging the bricks around a stone relief showing a dragon with a serpent's head. The image is ...