Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient ... Baghdad put Hunayn ibn Ishaq in charge of the translators at the city ...

Earth's Furnace Death Valley has long held a reputation as one of the hottest places on the planet. 7°C (134°F) back in 1913, ...

The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with ... The scholars worked together to translate ancient Roman and Greek texts on subjects like algebra, medicine, astronomy.

I’d been to India once before, a decade or so ago, when this year a chance presented itself to go back and take my mum, a ...

The Empire is in the throes of an industrial revolution fueled by ancient technologies of a long-forgotten people – and it is about to collapse. The land teeters on the verge of a succession crisis, ...

Apple TV+’s thriller series ‘Prime Target’ centers on Edward “Ed” Brooks, a gifted mathematics postgraduate student whose ...

The city of Baghdad was home to a number of libraries ... Lots of important books were kept in the House of Wisdom. People translated ancient Roman and Greek texts into Arabic so more people ...

Mohammad Sabet-Eqlidi announced the restoration’s completion during a visit to the site of the bas-relief, which overlooks the ancient city of Qir ... near modern Baghdad, though other cities also ...

A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures ... from Mosul, the city in northern Iraq where IS ...

"I recognize that the concept of Zionism evokes among Palestinians the memories of displacement and dispossession and that Zionism is the source of trauma, mistrust, and pain for many Palestinians." ...