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 ...

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

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

The agreement keeps alive the possibility that a small contingent of U.S. forces might stay in Iraq indefinitely.

Antony Blinken is the first U.S. Secretary of State to visit Niger, an African nation that few Americans could find on a map. The United ... and disastrous war on Iraq. “The British government ...

Iraq's military says its forces and American troops have killed a senior commander with the Islamic State group who was ...

People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows ...

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

Mr. Abbas has said he was not given a proper opportunity to examine the proposed map of the West Bank and asked for more ...