The construction material was equally telling. Made from Tigris River mud mixed with straw, chaff, or animal dung, the brick exemplified ancient building practices. Unlike modern kiln-fired bricks ...

Historical writings, including hieroglyphics, suggest that such bricks were molded using mud from the Tigris River. Taking a cue from ancient descriptions, even from as far afield as Egypt in the ...

The ancient town of Hasankeyf sits on the bank of the Tigris River. The Ilısu Dam will cause the river to rise some 200 feet, submerging this modern café, the ruins of the 900-year-old bridge ...

Located on an escarpment of the Upper Tigris River Basin that is part of the so-called Fertile Crescent, the fortified city of Diyarbakır and the landscape around has been an important centre since ...

Many Ancient Assyrian Tombs have been found in the past ... The western corner of the city with the new path of the Tigris river. The plan of the citadel. (View of Asurnasirpal II's palace with a view ...

Michael Palin embarks on a 1609km odyssey, following the course of the great Tigris river. He experiences what life is like for the 40 million people who live in Iraq, explores its ancient history ...

Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ... after five of the river’s upstream countries — Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, ...