NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water ...
Iraq has begun its first nationwide population census in decades in a step aimed at modernizing data collection and planning ...
Britain and the United States Redraw the Map After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, its territories were divided between the victors, Britain and France. Britain occupied modern-day Iraq ...