Ennigaldi-Nanna: The World’s First Museum Curator Was a Woman
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2023
In 1925, when British archeologist Leonard Woolley and his team were excavating at Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, they d...
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Nimrud Lens: A 2,700-Year-Old Magnifying Glass
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2022
During excavations of the ancient Assyrian capital of Kalkhu (better known as Nimrud, in Iraq) in 1850, archaeologist Austen Henry Layard fo...
Code of Ur-Nammu: The Oldest Law in History
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2022
Some of the earliest legal codes concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment were formulated in the ancient Middle East. The Sumeria...
Did Abbas Ibn Firnas Make History’s First Flight?
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2022
Just outside Baghdad International Airport there is a statue of a man wearing a turban with feathered wings strapped over his arms, about to...
The Oldest Name in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2022
Humans have been calling each other by names probably for hundreds of thousands of years ever since the first human beings evolved from Homo...
The Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 2, 2019
This enormous structure rising over the desert sands near the Euphrates River resembles a sandstone butte but is actually made of mud-brick...
The Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2018
The two great rivers of ancient Mesopotamia—Tigris and Euphrates—rises in the Taurus mountains in southern Turkey, and after flowing through...
The Oldest Bridge In The World
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2018
The ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, located approximately midway between the modern cities of Baghdad and Basrah, in southern Iraq, is one o...
Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished Mosques
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2016
In the late 1990s, amidst rising poverty and with four million residents on the verge of famine, the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein deci...
The Round City of Baghdad
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2016
The city of Baghdad was founded in the 8th century as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, by its caliph al-Mansur. The Caliphate had just ...
