Tear bottles, believed to be a pre-Christian custom, were used to collect tears, particularly by women who lost their ...

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 ...

Al-Ansari, N. , Sissakian, V. and Elias, Z. (2025) Soil Erosion in Al-Adhaim River Basin, Central Part of Iraq. Engineering, ...

But Bashar al-Assad's regime never recognised it and, despite his fall from power, its future remains uncertain. As well as more than a decade of civil war, the Syrian Kurds have faced years of ...

In an instant, dark clouds engulfed the sky, obscuring the scorching sun in Al-Hizamat, a small village near Afak district in Iraq's Diwaniyah Governorate. Rain was imminent. Almost. A few minutes ...

we cross a rickety floating bridge over the River Tigris. Our minibus rattles as it takes us from Iraqi Kurdistan through Syrian oil fields, where jacks pumping crude oil line the roads.

king of Assyria 721-705 Outline showing the location Citadel with respect to the city of Nimrud. The western corner of the city with the new path of the Tigris river. The plan of the citadel. (View of ...

Located in Room B, Panel 11 (catalog number WA124541 ... an innovative military flotation device that helped build one of history's most formidable empires through tactical river crossing and stealth ...