Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000. 1540: Henry VIII annuls his six month marriage to his fourth wife ...

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

Iranian police have recovered 21 ancient coins believed to date back to the Ilkhanid era during a vehicle search near the ...

The Secret History of the Mongols, translation, study, and scholarly notes by Francis Woodman Cleaves (Cambridge, Mass, 1982), in 342 pdf pages. Publication of this work was delayed until 1982, ...

The so-called "Baghdad Batteries" have been claimed to be an ancient, rudimentary way of storing power, but are they really or is this just speculation?

Discover the captivating story of Medieval Baghdad, once the shining beacon of the Islamic Golden Age, through the lens of Kings and Generals. Journey back to the early days of the Abbasid ...

The Trump administration has also attempted to get Baghdad to free a Princeton researcher named Elizabeth Tsurkov, who Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq, kidnapped in 2023.