Archeologists say a 3,400-year-old city was uncovered in Iraq after extreme drought conditions led to decreased water levels along the Tigris River. German and Kurdish archeologists recently ...

Located on an escarpment of the Upper Tigris River Basin that is part of the so-called Fertile Crescent, the fortified city of Diyarbakır and the landscape around has been an important centre since ...

Water has emerged as a new front for power and leverage in a region already burdened by war, political instability, and ...

The ancient city of Ashur is located on the Tigris River in northern Mesopotamia in a specific geo-ecological zone, at the borderline between rain-fed and irrigation agriculture. The city dates back ...

The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris River within the city of Mosul in northern ...

Images & Stories / Alamy The waters of the Tigris River gave rise to the first settlements of the Fertile Crescent in Anatolia and Mesopotamia—the cradle of civilization. The ancient city of ...

In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its source in southeastern Turkey through Iraq’s marshes and into the saline Arabian Gulf. To do so, he assembled an ...