In a letters to her parents, Gertrude describes the beauty of the Tigris River at dusk. In a letters to her parents, Gertrude describes the beauty of the Tigris River at dusk during a hot summer’s ...

A 3,400 year-old city emerged from the Tigris River in Iraq due to a drought, revealing the hidden civilization. A team of archaeologists rushed to the Mosul reservoir, located in northern Iraq and ...

Mosul is one of the oldest cities in the world. (Universal Images Group North America LLC/DeAgostini/Alamy) (BBC) -- Reaching the source of the Tigris is not an easy task. Where a dirt road ends, a ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD - The Tigris River, or in Arabic Nahr Dijlah, winds itself through the very heart of Baghdad. For centuries, it has provided life-sustaining water and enabled trade in Mesopotamia. Traversing ...

BAGHDAD — Divers call it “the burial ground,” an impenetrably dark stretch of the Tigris River, about 20 feet deep, passing through the heart of Baghdad. Cruising the river on a recent day strapped ...

The future stability of the young and relatively weak Iraqi government rests on its ability to provide basic public goods--water, food, and electricity--to its populace, which is related directly to ...

An international group of archaeologists have unearthed a 3,400-year-old city under the Tigris River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen The “Lost City of Atlantis” ...

An Iraqi dives into the waters of the Tigris river in Baghdad on July 12, 2023, as temperatures soared past 45 degrees Celsius — Ahmad AL-RUBAYE With scorching temperatures and power cuts, Wissam Abed ...