BAGHDAD — The wooden boats are patched and painted on the shore, and Lufti Mahmoud, his hands as coarse as fishing nets, pushes his skiff into the Tigris and glides against the current, remembering ...

Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...

Excavations at the relatively small but strategically placed site of Hirbemerdon Tepe, located along the west bank of the upper Tigris River in modern southeastern Turkey, have yielded significant ...

Mesopotamia is said to be where civilisation was born and the waters that nurtured its existence in ancient times were the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. We add them to our ongoing series on rivers and ...

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its ...

A MONG the great rivers of the world, the Euphrates and the Tigris stand out with peculiar prominence, not that they are of unrivalled length—there are at least a score of rivers of greater or equal ...

From Iraq came the revolting photos. Barbarians in Falluja had strung up the burnt bodies of American civilians on a bridge over the River Euphrates. Apart from the sheer horror of it — the teenagers ...

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself. Sun setting on the Tigris: Iraqi fisherman ...