Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

The Euphrates River is one of the most important water systems in recorded history. Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable ...

In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its ... lifeblood of ancient Mesopotamia and modern Iraq is dying. The combination of geopolitics and climate change ...

The northern and north-eastern side of Jebel Bishri parallels at the Euphrates River. The area belongs to the Fertile Crescent ... when civilisation and writing were developed in Mesopotamia in the ...

The irrigation of Harran is considered one of the project’s successes, but people in Syria and Iraq complain that Turkey’s dams threaten water flows from the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers ...

Millennia ago, in the Fertile Crescent, the land nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iran, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world’s first major civilizations.

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the Persian Gulf, is often regarded as the birthplace of urban civilization.