Must See Archaeological Sites in Iraq
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Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)
Aššur, also known as Ashur and Qal'at Sherqat, was the capital of the Old Assyrian Empire, the Middle Assyrian Empire, and for a time, of…
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Samarra
Samarra is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, 125 kilometers north of Baghdad.
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Nineveh
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq.
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Nineveh
Nineveh, also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city…
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Uruk
Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates…
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Kish
Kish is an important archaeological site in Babil Governorate. It was occupied from the Ubaid to Hellenistic periods.
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Kish
Kish is an important archaeological site in Babil Governorate. It was occupied from the Ubaid to Hellenistic periods.
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Dur-Sharrukin
Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria.
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Ishtar Gate
The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon. It was constructed c. 569 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the…
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Ziggurat of Ur
The Ziggurat of Ur is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of Ur near Nasiriyah, in present-day Dhi Qar Province, Iraq.
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Shuruppak
Shuruppak, modern Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient…
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Eshnunna
Eshnunna was an ancient Sumerian city and city-state in central Mesopotamia 12.6 miles northwest of Tell Agrab and 15 miles northwest of…
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Girsu
Girsu was a city of ancient Sumer, situated some 25 km northwest of Lagash, at the site of what is now Tell Telloh in Dhi Qar Governorate,…
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Bad-tibira
Bad-tibira, "Wall of the Copper Worker", or "Fortress of the Smiths", identified as modern Tell al-Madineh, between Ash Shatrah and Tell as…
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Tell Kunara
Tell Kunara is an ancient Near East archaeological site about 5 kilometres southwest of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
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