In all, there have been at least 31 attacks on U.S. installations in Iraq and Syria over the past two weeks, the Pentagon said, in what officials have described as a response by Iranian-backed ...

In this "world," the people inhabiting Mesopotamia—what is now Iraq and ... is an ancient map that not only opens the door to understanding Babylonian cosmology and geography but also attests ...

NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water ...