Memories like these reenact themselves in my mind now as we drive through the city, and for a moment I imagine I've returned to Baghdad the way a ghost might haunt the world it once inhabited.

In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple proposes that India had a role in shaping and reshaping the ancient and medieval world.

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.

Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned ... and they also use special ‘medicines’ for our 1,950 ancient manuscripts because those too are very valuable.” Small groups of students ...

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 ...

The Penn Museum and Iraqi archaeologists discovered remarkably preserved shrines at a temple that was destroyed by fire ...

The Ancient Church of the East is set ... remaining faithful to their church and staying in Baghdad despite the challenges faced by the city. The appointment of a young and educated Patriarch ...