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 ...
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The Day Baghdad Burned: Mongol Invasion Explained
In 1258, the Mongol Empire unleashed one of the most devastating sieges in history, bringing down the heart of the Islamic ...
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 ...
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