In 1258, the Mongol Empire unleashed one of the most devastating sieges in history, bringing down the heart of the Islamic ...

Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, trade and religious life. However, in the 1250’s, Hulagu, brother of ...

In the year 1258, more than 100,000 soldiers amassed outside the great Islamic city of Baghdad. They were the Mongol Army, led by the grandson of the fearsome Genghis Khan. Within weeks, they'd ...

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Muslims, too, saw the Mongols as bloodthirsty savages. When Hulagu Khan stormed Baghdad, in 1258, bodies were heaped on the streets; drains reportedly ran red in the heart of Muslim civilization ...

Baghdad in 776 CE, nicknamed the Round City and Madinat as-Salam, ... the House of Wisdom entered a period of slow decline and would collapse for good with the arrival of the Mongols under Hulagu.

New Assassin’s Creed video game brings Baghdad’s Golden Age back to life. ... It was a “golden age” — and it came to a cataclysmic end in 1258, when Mongol forces sacked the city.