Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

(250306) -- BAGHDAD, March 6, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 4, 2025 shows the ancient site of Babylon in Babil province,Iraq. (Xinhua/Duan Minfu) ...

The Parthian Battery or Baghdad Battery is one of the most fascinating inventions of the ancient world preceding the batteries we use today.

The discovery took place in 1936, by workers from the Iraqi State Railways Department, on a hill in Kujut Rabua, a village southeast of Baghdad, in an old tomb they had just unearthed. The site is ...

For generations, collard greens have formed an important part of African and African-diaspora diets around the world.

Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and while only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains intact, we’ve ...

"In recent months, we have managed to recover more than 7,000 historically significant antiquities from ancient civilizations ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

The Abbasid Caliphate once ruled a Golden Age of knowledge and power, but it all came crashing down when Baghdad burned Discover the fall of this great dynasty ...

In the West, the practice of exchanging rings to mark a betrothal dates back to ancient Rome, when noble families would trade ...

The Chaldean patriarch of Baghdad, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, said most of the Iraqi population has been distressed by Pope ...