NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water ...

Babylon, Ur, Uruk, Nippur and Kish have yielded abundant ... Nevertheless, the physical and social organization of these most ancient cities is still poorly understood, for a variety of reasons.

Visiting these cities will give travellers an insight into the region's long and storied history – as well into contemporary Iraq. For the ancient Sumerians, Nippur was the link between heaven ...

Now, some scientists are arguing the settlements represent a distinct form of ancient urban life that has gone largely unrecognized. Megasites were cities ... was central to Mesopotamia’s ...

Corresponding to an area comprising of today’s Iraq, part of Syria, and Turkey, the heartland of Mesopotamia ... the city of Uruk. He named Inanna first, in an inscription found at Nippur ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city ... Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may have once been the powerful city of Qabra, referenced in ...

Archaeological digs in the Middle East have revealed the remains of ancient harvests that record ... growth of some of the world's oldest cities in Mesopotamia, in present-day northern Syria.

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia ... preserving the ancient landscape unlike elsewhere in Mesopotamia where older ...