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 ...

Even the southern marshes of modern Iraq and the Zagros Mountains find ... Researchers today continue to uncover details ...

The “oldest map of the world in ... roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time. The ancient artifact, discovered in the Middle East ...

a team of archaeologists from the United Kingdom's Durham University and Iraq's University of al-Qadisiyah have identified the location of an ancient battle site. The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah took ...

The ruins of a 3,400-year-old lost city — complete with a palace and a sprawling fort — have been unearthed in Iraq after ... raced to map and excavate as much of the the ancient city as ...

Authorities in northern Iraq on Sunday unveiled an "archaeological ... But in recent years it has suffered as a location for smugglers of ancient artifacts. Looters decimated the country's ancient ...

Iraq's antiquities officials had expressed concern that US soldiers had also caused significant damage to historic sites in Samarra, including the walls of an ancient palace. A senior government ...

Surrounding the map is a “bitter river,” which ancient Mesopotamians believed to ... would not encourage you perhaps to moat across Iraq today in a Land Rover, when it comes to operating ...

Strolling along the ancient ruins of Hatra in Iraq's north, dozens of visitors admired the site, where local initiatives seek to turn over a new leaf after a brief but brutal jihadist rule.

One of three stone tablets found in northeastern Iraq that may reveal more information about Mesopotamian life. University of Central Florida, courtesy of Tiffany Earley-Spadoni An ancient game ...