The Iran-Iraq War became one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era, killing nearly two million and leaving both ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

The six maps below attempt to show how Iraq and Syria came into being as modern states and the internal and external forces that have shaped them since then. During World War I, diplomats from ...

That schism remains to this day ... world peace, carved up the former Ottoman Empire and unified the three provinces under British rule, essentially demarcating the modern boundaries of Iraq.

a site currently on the tentative list to become a world heritage site. Ashur, also known as Assur, is a city in modern-day Iraq that dates back to the third millennium, and it later became the ...

Weary of sectarian bloodshed, some Baghdad residents have taken to wearing small gold maps of Iraq around their necks ... wearing the map necklace every day. Some men wear the map as well as ...

The U.S. may be going to war with Iraq, but a survey finds that an overwhelming number of young adults don't have a clue as to where that country is on a world map. A National Geographic survey of ...

Iraq's antiquities laws date from the 1930s, the legal legacy of the post-First World War British mandate ... With war looming, U.S. officials are studying maps and polling scholars on the ...