A stronger R&D base, they hope, will transform their countries’ economies. Will their plan work? Read more at ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Bayt al-Hikma, or the House of Wisdom, in Baghdad emerged in the ninth century—even before the Accademia dei ...

And Baghdad is right at the centre of it all ... but they’re working on the riddle too. And of course the House of Wisdom won’t let me in. I’m going to be a servant forever.

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 ...

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 ...