Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable land in the fertile crescent, which became the roots of human civilization with the ...

These laser-cut token counters for the board game Tigris & Euphrates demonstrate some clever design, and show that some simple touches can make a big difference. In the digital version of the game ...

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...

Water buffalo gently glide through shallow water canals that snake throughout Iraq’s southern Mesopotamian Marshes, their ...

A 3-D landscape model of the northern side of Jebel Bishri facing the Euphrates . The model is constructed from NASA space shuttle X-SAR mission 2000 radar data (provided by DLR, the German Aerospace ...

In Genesis, the Bible states that a river flows through Eden and divides into four branches: The Pishon, the Gihon, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. Of these, the Tigris and the Euphrates are well known ...

The combination of geopolitics and climate change risks making large swathes of the Fertile Crescent uninhabitable. A studied reader will know the troubles that the Tigris-Euphrates Basin faces. Iraq ...

This story appears in the April 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world's first empire, known as Akkad, was founded some 4,300 years ago, between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers.

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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 ...