Megalithic Portal: Latest from Iraq

Nemrik 9

Anne T — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:46:57 GMT

]]>Ancient Village or Settlement in Iraq

Qermez Dere

Anne T — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:25:20 GMT

]]>The houses here are almost 10,000 years old, dug into the ground, plastered, and each was fitted with one or two pairs of clay pillars, set symmetrically either side of the axis of the chamber, with modelled tops. The pillars hold nothing up. They are not structural, so what they were for is an intriguing question.

Jerwan Aqueduct

Anne T — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:21:33 GMT

]]>Ancient aqueduct in Iraq

Kani Shaie Temple

TheDruid-3X3 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:05:34 GMT

]]>Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed the remains of building thought to have been a temple from the Uruk period (named after Uruk in southern Mesopotamia). This is when the first cities in the world were taking off. The structure dates from between about 3300 to 3100 BCE.

Nineveh

AlexHunger — Fri, 30 May 2025 06:06:32 GMT

]]>Stele of King Asahaddon dating to ca 671 BCE from Nineveh in the Pergamon museum, Berlin. Nineveh, as mentioned in the Bible, was an important city in ancient Assyria at the confluence of the Tigris and Khosr river, where it controlled trade routes between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Kurd Qaburstan

Andy B — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:46:15 GMT

]]>Ancient artefacts unearthed in Iraq shed light on the hidden history of Mesopotamia - evidence that Kurd Qaburstan could be the ancient city of Qabra, mentioned in Babylonian inscriptions. . Kurd Qaburstan is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in the region. The site is strategically located between the Upper and Lower Zab rivers, a single-period site dating to the early 2nd millennium BC. Kurd Qaburstan has been proposed as the location of the ancient city of Qabra.

Tell al-Fakhar

KaiHofmann — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:24:33 GMT

Ancient Palace in Iraq

Shanidar Cave

KaiHofmann — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:11:07 GMT

Cave or Rock Shelter in Iraq

Nimrud

AlexHunger — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 05:03:32 GMT

]]>International condemnation as "Islamic State" bulldoze the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, see comment. Ancient Settlement in Iraq. Remains of early Assyrian city. The city of Nimrud was the ancient Assyrian city called Kalhu, Calah or Kalakh, located on the river Tigris south of Nineveh and some 30 km southeast of modern Mosul.

Nuzi

bat400 — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:24:33 GMT

An ancient statue, re-created. . Ancient town in Al Ta'amim Governorate.Located near the Tigris river, the site consists of one multiperiod tell and two small mounds. The town (Gasur) was founded during the Akkadian Empire in the late third millennium BC. In the middle second millennium Hurrians absorbed the town and renamed it Nuzi.

Satu Qala (Idu)

Andy B — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 14:49:19 GMT

]]>The image shows an artefact thought to be a clay model of a bed, something also found at other sites in the Middle East.. In the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq archaeologists have discovered an ancient city called Idu, hidden beneath a mound. Cuneiform inscriptions and works of art reveal the palaces that flourished in the city throughout its history thousands of years ago.

Tell Khaiber

davidmorgan — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:05:36 GMT

]]>An ancient Sumerian city, 20km from Ur, inhabited from about 4000 to 2000 BCE. British and Iraqi archaeologists have started the excavation of the enormous building complex. One of the most striking finds at the site to date is a clay plaque, 9cm high, apparently showing a worshipper approaching a sacred place.

Ur of the Chaldees

AlexHunger — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:01:17 GMT

]]>Fertility and abundance are important themes of ancient Mesopotamian texts and images. See latest comment.. Ancient Settlement in Iraq. Remains of early Sumerian city and royal cemetery. The mud brick Great Ziggurat, dating to the Middle Bronze Age (2100 BC), is the most notable structure on the site.

Babylon.

AlexHunger — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:30:27 GMT

]]>Modern curses threaten Iraq's ancient wonder of Babylon. Ancient city dating to 3rd millenium BCE and earlier and one of the most important cities of ancient Mesopotamia. The site today is marked by a broad area of ruins just east of the Euphrates River, about 90 km south of Baghdad, Iraq.

Study of Sumerian and Akkadian languages reveal a lost world

coldrum — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:05:51 GMT

]]>Gonzalo Rubio spends his days reading dead languages that haven't been spoken for thousands of years. An assyriologist at Pennsylvania State University, Rubio studies the world's very first written languages, Sumerian and Akkadian, which were used in ancient Mesopotamia (an area covering modern-day Iraq).