A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site ...

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 ...

With Iraq currently in the world's spotlight, trace its beginnings in Mesopotamia - its name in ancient times. Mesopotamia has been called the 'cradle of civilisation' because agriculture, animal ...

According to IFLScience, the map was discovered by the renowned archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in the 19th century, along with ...

Archaeologists have identified the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical ... he plotted a series of circles on the map using distances mentioned in the historical ...