First came the Mongols, then the Ottomans and Persians. Finally, in modern times, the British took Baghdad, sacrificing thousands of lives to wrest it from the Turks during World War I. Over centuries ...

Ubisoft has announced a new History of Baghdad feature for Assassin’s Creed Mirage which will allow players to explore the historical realities of the city as they progress through the campaign.

This History of Baghdad feature, as stated in Ubisoft’s post on the topic, is meant to add historical context to Mirage’s “simulation of the past.” In addition to tutorials, it has a database full of ...

Basim first appeared in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and he was a pivotal character in helping Eivor become an assassin. This year, players will get to play as young Basim and how he was first ...

Ever since Assassin’s Creed Origins, mainline Assassin’s Creed games have striven to truly broaden players’ historical knowledge of ancient cultures, societies, and environments through bonus modes ...

Assassin's Creed Mirage goes back to the narrative-driven roots of the series, set 20 years before Assassin's Creed Valhalla featuring a young Basim. In the ninth century CE, Baghdad is at its height, ...

When is a battery not a battery? When it's a Baghdad battery. Some "weird history" authors and armchair archaeologists have claimed that a group of artifacts discovered in 1938 were ancient "batteries ...