This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. When British archaeologist Max Mallowan investigated the neo-Assyrian site of Nimrud in northern Iraq, he got help from ...

Andrew Eames retraces the journey of Agatha Christie who, after the break-up of her marriage, made a spontaneous decision to travel alone to Baghdad ...

More specifically, in the Old Cataract Hotel, a magnificent hotel rising above the banks of the Nile, when Agatha Christie was staying there with her husband. She also travelled to Iraq and Syria ...