Dalrymple contends that ancient India transformed nations and ... whose intellect reflects his father's studies in Kashmir, helped plan Baghdad as a circular city, probably inspired by the mandala.

The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 ...

The Baghdad Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250). The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just outside Baghdad and is composed of a clay jar ...