A Christian empire that inherited classical learning, Byzantium preserved pagan texts via schools, new script, scholia, and ...
This video explores the 1258 Mongol siege that destroyed Baghdad and ended the Abbasid Caliphate. It covers the political failures, military mistakes, and brutal aftermath that reshaped the Islamic ...
Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances ...
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They wrestled steel beams, hung off giant hooks and tossed red hot rivets – all while ‘strolling on the thin edge of nothingness’. Now the 3,000 unsung heroes who raised the famous skyscraper are ...
The Akkadian Empire (ca. 2340–2198 b.c.) represented something entirely new in human history: a dynasty that conquered and ruled over a vast territory, incorporating people of different ethnicities ...
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Christian forces captured the Umayyad capital in 1236, but left its glorious house of worship largely untouched when converting it to a cathedral. Majesty of two faithsThe artistic styles of Islam and ...
New discoveries are overturning long-held assumptions and revealing previously ignored complexities at the desert castle of Khirbet al-Mafjar The palace’s bathhouse boasts a carpet-like mosaic floor ...