nurturing an ancient culture that survived here for millennia. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing from southern Turkey through Syria and Iraq, met at the Shatt al-Arab River near Basra ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... in the 1800s in what is now Iraq. Later excavations, undertaken ...

Researchers in Iraq have uncovered an extensive Mesopotamian canal system used for irrigation over 3,000 years ago.

Marking 10 years since ISIS swept into Mosul and the towns of the Nineveh Plain, EWTN News, in collaboration with its sister agency covering the Middle East and North Africa, ACI MENA, has released a ...

All this? Well, it’ll be History. A boy, Urian, shows us the sights of Ancient Sumer, located in modern-day Iraq, on his way to school. We find out about many of the inventions developed at the ...

President Trump has the ability to spark positive change in the lives of Iraq's persecuted Assyrian Christians. Our plight is ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past ... which covers much of what is now Iraq. Ancient Mesopotamia has languished in obscurity, at least compared with the ...

The other measures 3.2 cm and originates from the Irin/Eridu region in southern Iraq. It dates from 1,900-1,700 BC. According to the Federal Office of Culture, the two objects were not correctly ...