It reminded someone so much of cities they had seen in the west that it was coined "the Manhattan of the Desert".

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient ... In other cities across the new Islamic world, Muslim patrons hired ...