Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, trade and religious life. However, in the 1250’s, Hulagu, brother of ...

Epic History. Baghdad Burns: Fall of the Abbasids. Posted: June 13, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025. In the 8th century Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s ...

With its 13th instalment released on Thursday, Assassin’s Creed Mirage attempts to immerse players in Iraq’s 9th-century Baghdad during the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, when it was one of ...

Mutannabi Street, in central Baghdad, has had many names. In the second Abbasid period, it was the Paper Market. Under the Ottomans it was Military Bakery Street. Under the British it was Hassan ...

A new book, When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty, takes readers back more than ten centuries to a very different time in the city's history -- when it ...

Ancient Arabic writings are the latest in a long line of historical records giving insights into past climates.

New Assassin’s Creed video game brings Baghdad’s Golden Age back to life. The game brings to life a city that was the intellectual and artistic heart of the mighty Abbasid empire.

They were keen and curious observers. More than a millennium ago merchant-informants and officials at the service of the Abbasid caliph, from Baghdad or Basra, put to paper eyewitness accounts of ...

In a picture taken on August 10, 2012, an Iraqi policeman walks past the “Wastani Gate” on the historical wall of Baghdad, dating back to the Abbasid era known as the “Islamic Golden Age ...

Abbasid Baghdad was a walled, fortified city, set among an extensive network of canals Climate scientists often bemoan the imperfect data with which they have to work, particularly when it comes ...