Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable land in the fertile crescent, which became the roots of human civilization with the ...

McCarron’s new book, The Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilization, is the sobering yet often funny and poignant account of their journey. The book is a celebration of Iraq’s ...

A Jacobin investigation reveals how Iraq’s southern marshes, the birthplace of early civilization ... kilometers long that paralleled the Tigris River. Its sole purpose was to transport water ...