Stories: Iraq

Stories connected to Iraq.

• Where should light hit a curved mirror? Leonardo tried a device.Alhazen's problem asks where light must strike a spherical mirror to travel between two points. The 11th-cent…
• A later tablet helped recover an older gameIrving Finkel reconstructed play for the Royal Game of Ur using a Babylonian rules tablet from about 177 BCE…
• The apparent spider is part of a snakeThis viper from western Iran and neighbouring areas has a swollen tail tip fringed by elongated scales that r…