The Arab Muslim victory at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah paved the way for the Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia.

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

The location of a significant battle that took place nearly 1,400 years ago has been identified using declassified spy ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the ancient Battle of al-Qadisiyyaha in Iraq using declassified photos from a US ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

Archaeologists say they have found the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with ...

Declassified 1970s-era US spy satellite images have led archaeologists ... the site while undertaking a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah (DZ), a pilgrimage route from Iraq´s Kufa ...

Initially, the team was mapping out the Darb Zubaydah pilgrimage route from Kufa in Iraq to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, using declassified spy satellite ... of circles on the map using distances ...