Bayt al-Hikma, or the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, emerged in the ninth century—even before the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, widely considered the first academy of sciences. The Banu Musa ...

Pupils are introduced to traditional male and female attire and fashion accessories as a merchant and his wife prepare to take up a prestigious invitation to the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

They include innovations in jewellery: Al-Khwārizmī, the Persian mathematician, astronomer, geographer and scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad with his a decimal counting system set to ...

to the streets of Baghdad, where the recent gas explosion has unearthed the remnants of The House of Wisdom, an 8th-century library that birthed modern science. This sequence of events puts Ed on ...

The caliphs are credited for setting up the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. The institution became the intellectual powerhouse of the Muslim world. The facility was set up to enable scholars to put ...