Compared with the ancient Mesopotamian capital of Babylon 55 miles to the south, Baghdad is a new city. It appeared as a settlement next to the Tigris in pre-Islamic times, at least by 1800 B.C. But ...

The Bronze Age city surfaced earlier this year after "large amounts of water" were drawn from the Mosul reservoir "to prevent crops from drying out," according to researchers from University of ...

The ruins of a 3,400-year-old lost city — complete with a palace and a sprawling fort — have been unearthed in Iraq after extreme drought severely depleted water levels in the country's largest ...

When an extreme drought caused a 3,400-year-old city to reemerge from a reservoir on the Tigris River in northern Iraq, archaeologists raced to excavate it before the water returned. The Bronze Age ...

A sprawling 3,400-year-old city emerged in Iraq after a reservoir’s water level swiftly dropped due to extreme drought. Kurdish and German archaeologists excavated the settlement in the Mosul ...

It's not often that video games can say that they're paving the way for historians, and yet that's exactly what Assassin's Creed Mirage is doing with Baghdad. Mirage is taking us to a 9th-century ...