The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with ... The scholars worked together to translate ancient Roman and Greek texts on subjects like algebra, medicine, astronomy.

Memories like these reenact themselves in my mind now as we drive through the city, and for a moment I imagine I've returned to Baghdad the way a ghost might haunt the world it once inhabited.

The Baghdad municipality's next focus will be Al-Rashid Street, inaugurated in 1916. "It's the soul of old Baghdad, its identity," said the municipality's head of communications Mohammed al-Rubaye.

Monumental FollySaddam Hussein’s 1980s “reconstruction” of Nebuchadrezzar II’s palace was built over the ruins of Babylon, near Baghdad ... s prestige. No ancient city was so desired ...

His work included estimates of the populations of some of the world’s major cities since ancient times ... Chandler’s original estimates, the city of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, was the ...