Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran, formed a significant part of the Fertile Crescent. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates ...

The map shows the ancient land of Mesopotamia, which means land between the rivers, and it is an area of the now Middle East, which, at the time, our ancestors, thought was the whole known world then.

On the tablet, Mesopotamia is surrounded by a double circle that is labeled the "Bitter River." At the time of creation, this was considered the boundary of the known world. Within Mesopotamia, clear ...

This enthralling history of ancient Mesopotamia explores what unearthed clay and stone tablets tell us about the intimate lives of people who lived 4,000 years ago; from the imprint of a child’s ...

That they lacked the resource offered by a big, actively flowing river will come as a surprise to many; the other early urban societies of the time, in Egypt and Mesopotamia, certainly benefitted ...

it was across the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia that several empires flourished. And here, in the 7th-century BCE Mesopotamia by the river Tigris, rules King Ashurbanipal, a cultured ...