UNESCO's World Heritage Committee voted on Friday to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site after three decades of lobbying efforts by Iraq. Iraq had been ...

It is precisely because the Mosul Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah seems so composed during “Returning to Babylon” that his pain seems all the more acute, his anger just barely repressed.

The Ishtar Gates are incredible, blue, and filled with so much history. Looking upon these Ocean Blue Gates of History makes you feel like you are holding hands with the past. This was the entrance to ...

Project Babylon was Saddam Hussein’s audacious plan to build the world’s largest artillery piece in the 1980s. Its intended use: launching satellites - or devastating projectiles. Canadian engineer ...