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The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah as depicted in the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp. Source: Mir Sayyid Ali / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lost Site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah Found Using Spy Satellites

All That History November 14, 2024

Islam was a religion which owed its rapid success to conquest. From 622 AD and...

The golden masks recovered in Shiraz. Source: Mehr News.

Police in Iran Confiscate Ancient Golden Masks

All That History October 7, 2024

Police in Iran have broken up a gang of antiquities smugglers and recovered priceless artifacts...

The Baghdad Battery disappeared during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but we have a great deal of surviving detail on what the original artifact was like (Ironie / CC BY-SA 2.5)

The Baghdad Battery: History Rewritten or History Misunderstood?

All That History August 3, 2024

For those who search for the strange and unusual from history there are certain things...