A missile attack has struck the United States Embassy compound in Baghdad, sending smoke rising from the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital. Security sources said the projectile landed ...

Veiled faces, abstract motifs, and ancestral memory converge in Hussein Shikha’s art, where the past and present of Iraq ...

The Pope has accepted the resignation of the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq. Cardinal Louis Sako's retirement ...

For decades, the so-called Baghdad Battery has been a curiosity, dismissed by many as nothing more than an ancient artifact that might’ve had a purpose far removed from the electrical world. But, ...

His recreation suggests that ancient people may have been harnessing electricity millennia earlier than we thought.

Lions of Mesopotamia coach on Play-Off Tournament targets, social media bans and putting Iraq back on the global map.

We often think about our distant ancestors as primitive, equipped with the crudest of tools and a limited set of skills. But more often than not, we are terribly mistaken. Ancient civilizations are ...

A Paris court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the descendants of an Iraqi Jewish family seeking compensation for a Baghdad villa occupied rent-free by France's diplomatic representation for ...

The Ziggurat of Ur was a monumental mudbrick temple built around 2100 BCE, rising above the city as a lasting symbol of devotion to the Mesopotamian moon god and the power of early urban civilization.

In an intriguing new study published by Chemistry World, scientists have revisited the enigmatic Baghdad battery, a 2,000-year-old artifact that may have been used as an ancient form of a battery.

For millennia, hundreds of vivid bas-reliefs adorned the walls of the Nineveh palace of the legendary eighth-century BCE Assyrian king Sennacherib, depicting daring conquests richly described in ...

Little of medieval Baghdad remains today. In the 13th century, the city was sacked by the Mongols and mostly destroyed. To my mind, though, this very absence of archaeological evidence from the ninth ...