and tar (traces of which have been found in 8th century CE Baghdad roads). Roads kept empires stable. They became the mark of ...

Iraq's foreign minister announced on Tuesday the retrieval of various artifacts and textured paintings from Japan and Switzerland. Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking from the Iraqi National Museum in ...

Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces and public buildings were built to rival the splendours of ...