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23/08/2026

A statue of a Sumerian woman's head, found in the city of Tutub (Khafaji), dates back to the Early Dynastic period, 2700 BC. Tutub was one of the cities belonging to the kingdom of Eshnunna and contained a temple to the god Sin. Its ruins are located near the city of Baquba today. The piece is on display at the Louvre Museum.

20/08/2026

The story began in
This Babylonian seal shows the god Shamash holding a knife and placing his foot on a small child, preparing to slaughter him, about 4,000 years ago.
And before him stands an important figure in a majestic scene, holding a horned ram to offer as a sacrifice to the god Shamash, who will then slaughter it.
Behind the king stands the goddess Lama, the Sumerian goddess of intercession and protection, raising her hand in supplication and intercession for the rituals of offering this sacrifice.
The third person, standing on a platform and holding a scepter, represents the guardian angel of the gods, standing on the altar platform.

And We ransomed him with a great sacrifice

Surah As-Saffat, verse 107
One of the chapters of the Holy Quran

15/08/2026

This 9th-century BC stone relief from the throne dais of the Neo-Assyrian king Shalmaneser III depicts him shaking hands with the Babylonian king Marduk-zakir-shumi I to seal a historic peace treaty.

15/08/2026

A pair of guardian spirits, one called Ugalu (with a lion's head and eagle's talons), adorned the doors of Assyrian palaces and temples, such as the Esagila temple (temple of the god Marduk), as well as private residences, especially bedrooms, to ward off evil and disease. The mural is from the palace of King Sennacherib in Nineveh (the unparalleled palace) and dates from 700-692 BC. British Museum

15/08/2026

A bronze statue of a man from the Akkadian period (3100-3300 BCE) in a pose of prayer and worship. It is believed to be of a priest or important figure.

05/08/2026

You are looking at a Sumerian birth certificate for a child, perhaps the first birth certificate known to history, dating back approximately 4,000 years.

A clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform script details a child's birth certificate from the Sumerian era. This document mentions the child's name and the names of his parents, thus specifying the child's gender. A footprint of the child, made of clay and dating from between 2000 and 1595 BCE, is attached to the document as an identification mark.

These artifacts were discovered in the Sumerian city of Nippur in southern Iraq.

Currently, in many Western countries, parents imprint their newborn child's footprint in clay, just as the Sumerians did thousands of years ago, as a form of documentation and a beautiful memento of the child's birth.

The tablet is housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

28/06/2026

This site, the Baratha Mosque in old Baghdad, was a horse-drawn tram-changing point in 1910. The tram ran from Karkh to Kadhimiya during the Ottoman era, and the entire area was covered with date palm groves.
هذا الموقع جامع براثا في بغداد القديمة كان نقطة تبديل الخيول المتعبه ألتي تجرالترام سنة ١٩١٠وتنطلق من الكرخ إلى الكاظميه تجرهاالخيول في العهد الدوله العثمانيه وكانت هذه المنطقه كلها بساتين نخيل التمر

16/06/2026

The Kari Tramway: Iraq's First Tramway

The double-decker Kari tramway,

drawn by horses and running on a railway between Baghdad and Kadhimiya, was the first modern form of public transportation in Iraq and the second most important development in transportation after the steamship.

A joint-stock company was established to build this line in May 1870 with the participation of several wealthy merchants from Baghdad and Kadhimiya. This mode of transport was also used between Najaf and Kufa. The French writer Jeanne Dieulafoy, while traveling between Baghdad and Kadhimiya in 1881, gave a fascinating account of how this mode of transport impacted the lives of Iraqis.
الكاري.. أول ترامواي في العراق

كانت عربة الكاري ذات الطابقين، التي

تجرها الخيول وتسير على سكة حديدية بين بغداد والكاظمية، أول وسيلة نقل جماعي حديثة في العراق وثاني أهم تطور في النقل بعد الباخرة.

تأسست شركة مساهمة لإنشاء هذا الخط في أيار 1870 بمشاركة عدد من أثرياء وتجار بغداد والكاظمية، كما استخدمت هذه الوسيلة بين النجف والكوفة. وقد وصفت الأديبة الفرنسية جين ديولافوا على متن السير بين بغداد والكاظمية عام 1881 وصفاً شيقاً، ما فرّق هذه الوسيل في حياة العراقيين.

20/08/2025

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19/08/2025

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