Archaeological sites in Iraq Archaeological sites in Iraq Adab, modern day Bismaya, was a city in present day Iraq between Telloh and Nippur ...more on Wikipedia about "Adab"
Akkad (or Agade) was a city and its region of northern Mesopotamia, ...more on Wikipedia about "Akkad"
Assur, also spelled Ashur, from Assyrian Aššur, was the capital of ancient Assyria. The remains of the city is situated on the western bank of river Tigris, north of the confluence with the tributary Little Zab river. ...more on Wikipedia about "Assur"
Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu, ܒܒܠ in Assyrian, an ancient city in Mesopotamia (Location: , modern Al Hillah, Iraq). It was the "holy city" of Babylonia from around 2300 BC, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian empire from 612 BC. In the Hebrew Bible, the name appears as בבל ( Babel), interpreted by popular etymology to mean "confusion". Akkadian bāb-ilû means "Gate of God", translating Sumerian Kadingirra. ...more on Wikipedia about "Babylon"
Ctesiphon ( Parthian: Tyspwn as well as Tisfun) is one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia and the capital of the Parthian Empire and its successor, the Sassanid Empire, for more than 800 years located in the ancient Iranian province of Khvarvaran. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ctesiphon"
Eridu (or Eridug) was an ancient city seven miles southwest of Ur . Eridu was the southernmost of the conglomeration of cities that grew about temples, almost in sight of one another, in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia. It was most likely founded close to the Persian Gulf near the mouth of the Euphrates river, but with accumulation of silt at the shoreline over the millennia, the remains of the city are now some distance from the gulf at Abu Shahrain in Iraq. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eridu"
Isin was an city of lower Mesopotamia, which flourished during the 20th century BC. No kings of Isin are known from the Sumerian period, and the "Dynasty of Isin" refers to Amorite states in lower Mesopotamia that attained independence with the decline of the 3rd dynasty of Ur. The dynasty of Isin ends at ca. 1730 BC short chronology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Isin"
Kish [kish] (Tall al-Uhaymir) was an ancient city of Sumer, now in central Iraq. The Sumerian king list states it was the first city to have kings after the Deluge. A French archeological team under Henri de Genouillac excavated there between 1912 and 1914, and later an Anglo-American team under Stephen Langdon from 1923 to 1933. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kish (Sumer)"
Lagash or Sirpurla was one of the oldest cities of Sumer and later Babylonia. It is represented by a rather low, long line of ruin mounds, now known as Tell al-Hiba in Iraq, northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk. It is positioned on the dry bed of an ancient canal, some 3 miles (5 km) east of the Shatt-el-Haj, and a little less than 10 miles (16 km) north of the modern town of Shatra in the district administered from Nasiriyah. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lagash"
Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located south of Nineveh on the river Tigris. The ancient city covered an area of around 16 square miles. Ruins of the city are found in modern day Iraq, some 30 km southeast of Mosul. The Arabs called the city Nimrud after Nimrod, a legendary Assyrian hunting hero, the father of the Assyrian founder Ashur (Assur). ...more on Wikipedia about "Nimrud"
Nineveh, Assyrian Ninua ( ), was an important city in ancient Assyria. This "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris (modern-day Mosul, Iraq). Ancient Nineveh's mound-ruins are located on a level part of the plain near the river within an 1800-acre area circumscribed by a seven and one-half mile brick-rampart. This whole extensive space is now one immense area of ruins. If Jonah is referring to what some scholars call Greater Nineveh, the term could include the region around Nineveh proper with a sixty mile perimeter including Kuyunjik, Khorsabad, and Nimrud. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nineveh"
The city of Nippur [nipoor'] ( Sumerian Nibru, Akkadian Nibbur) was one of the most ancient of all the Babylonian cities of which we have any knowledge, the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god, Enlil, ruler of the cosmos subject to An alone. Indeed, in Sumerian cuneiform, the signs read 'Nibru' and 'Enlil' are the same. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nippur"
Nuzi was an ancient city southwest of Kirkuk in modern Iraq, located near the Tigris river. It was founded by the Hurrians around 1500 BC. From about 1500 to 1350 BC Nuzi was located on the outskirts of the Kingdom of Mitannia, a major power in northern Mesopotamia, before being absorbed into the Assyrian Empire. Excavations in the 1920s unearthed Nuzi and, crucially, its archives of thousands of clay tablets inscribed with Akkadian cuneiform script. These provided invaluable insights into the legal, commercial and military activities of the city. They also shed light on the culture of the ancient Near East, including early versions of the stories of the Biblical characters Laban and Jacob. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuzi"
Opis (Akkadian Upî or Upija) was an ancient Babylonian city on the Tigris, not far from modern Baghdad. The precise location of Opis has not been established, but from the Akkadian and Greek texts, it was located on the east bank of the Tigris, near the Diyala River. ...more on Wikipedia about "Opis"
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(Samarra) Sāmarrā (سامراء) is a town in Iraq. ...more on Wikipedia about "Samarra"
Seleucia on the Tigris was founded as the first capital city of the Seleucid Empire by Seleucus I Nicator circa 305 BCE. It stood on the west bank of the Tigris River opposite the smaller town of Opis (later Ctesiphon). It did not remain his main capital for long, as he soon transferred it from there to Antioch on the Orontes in northern Syria. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seleucia on the Tigris"
Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, located near the original mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. Because of marine regression, the remains are now well inland in present-day Iraq, south of the Euphrates on its right bank at , and named Tell el-Mukayyar [1], near the city of Nasiriyah south of Baghdad. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ur"
Uruk ( Sumerian Unug, Biblical Erech, Greek Orchoë and Arabic Warka), was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates, on the line of the ancient Nil canal, in a region of marshes, about 140 miles SSE from Baghdad. The modern name of Iraq is possibly derived from the name Uruk. ...more on Wikipedia about "Uruk"
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