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Nobody Knows For Certain

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About the work

Multimedia point-and-click game and anthology of stories drawing on Soviet illustrated children’s books translated in India; created with the support of the Garage Field Research program of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow) for the Garage Digital platform.

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The City With No Ruins: What Is Left of Abbasid Baghdad

A caliph drew his capital in fire, the Mongols erased it, and a video game rebuilt it out of Isfahan and Samarkand. What actually survives of Abbasid Baghdad, where it is, and who else has tried to put it back.

Climb a viewpoint in Assassin's Creed Mirage and you see the Round City whole — double walls, four gates, the green dome at the centre. Nobody has ever seen that view. No excavated remains have been securely identified as any of it. This is what is actually left of ninth-century Baghdad, where you would have to go to stand in it, and why Ubisoft was the second team to rebuild a city that no longer exists.