When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

The map was originally discovered in 1882 by renowned archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq. Although Rassam discovered the tablet nearly 150 years ...

The group named the slain militant as Abu Haidar al-Khafaji and said he was working in Damascus as a security adviser to the ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map.

Iraq launched an ambitious strategy on Wednesday to protect and improve its environment over the next six years, in the ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

Hamas and the Houthis have opened offices in Baghdad, reflecting the two groups’ evolving relationship with Iraq as Tehran ...

Iraqi security officials have said an explosion targeted a site used by the U.S. military next to the Baghdad airport, one day before an expected visit by the Iranian president.

Beck’s central assertion, the one around which he bundles the many micro-observations of the book, is that it was the war on ...

BAGHDAD — The United States will withdraw most troops from Iraq over the next two years but leave a small residual force in the northern Kurdistan region under a plan negotiated by American and ...

The modern state of Iraq was an imperial fiction of the 20th century that now barely exists. The name “Iraq” has ancient origins, probably from the Sumerian city of Uruk, birthplace of writing ...