The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between ... undertaking a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah, a pilgrimage route ...

World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) found that more than half of the world's population lives in a ...