Archaeological sites in Iraq

Malgium (also Malkum or Malgûm) (Ĝalgi’a or Ĝalgu’a in Sumerian, and Malgû(m) in Akkadian) is an ancient Mesopotamian city tentatively identified as Tell Yassir (one of a group of tells called collectively Tulūl al-Fāj) which thrived especially in the Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2000 BC - 1600 BC. Malgium formed a small city-state in an area where the edges of the territories controlled by Larsa, Babylon and Elam converged. Inscribed in cuneiform as ma-al-gi-imKI (or ma-al-gu-umKI), its chief deities were Ea (whose temple was called Enamtila) and Damkina. A temple of Ulmašītum is known to have been

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site of six tells in the Sinjar valley in northern Iraq

250px|right|thumb|Mesopotamia in 2nd millennium BC (Place names in French) thumb|Fragment of a wall painting from the palace at Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta

archaeological site in Iraq

ancient city mentioned in The book of Ezekiel

thumb|Jerwan Aqueducts Jerwan is a locality north of Mosul in the Nineveh Province of Iraq. The site is clear of vegetation and is sparsely settled.

Kemune (thought to be the ancient city of Zakhiku) is an archaeological site discovered during a low water level in the reservoir of the Mosul Dam in the Nineveh Governorate, part of the Kurdistan region of Iraq in 2013. The Mitanni era city was destroyed by an earthquake around 1350 BC.

'''M'lefaat''' is a tell, or archaeological settlement mound, in Upper Mesopotamia that was occupied during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A.

Kashkar, also known as Kaskar, (), was a city in southern Mesopotamia. Its name appears to originate from Syriac ' meaning "citadel" or "town". Other sources connect it to ' "farming". It was originally built on the Tigris, across the river from the later medieval city of Wasit.

human settlement in Iraq

early Neolithic settlement in Iraq

ِNeo-Assyrian archaeological site in Iraq

Bassetki () is a small village in Iraq, in Dohuk Governorate of autonomous Kurdistan Region. The village is associated with several archaeological finds.

archaeological site in Iraq

Mardaman (modern Bassetki) was a northern Mesopotamian city that existed between ca.2200 and 1200 BC. It was uncovered in 2018 after translation of 92 cuneiform tablets. The tablets were discovered in summer 2017, near the Kurdish village of Bassetki, by a team of archaeologists. The team hailed from Tübingen's Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, and were led by Prof. Dr. Peter Pfälzner of the University of Tübingen. The city-god of Mardaman was the Hurrian goddess Shuwala. After the time of Assyrian occupation it is uncertain if this continued. It is thought that later in the 1st mill

Assyrian rock relief in Iraq

Bestansur is a Neolithic tell, or archaeological settlement mound, located in Arbat Town, Sulaimaniyah province, Kurdistan Region, Iraq in the western Zagros foothills. The site is located on the edge of the Shahrizor Plain, 30 km to the south-east of Sulaimaniyah. It is on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List.

archaeological site in Iraq

Sippar-Amnanum (also Sippar-Annunitum, Sippar-rabum, Sippar-durum, and Sippar-Anunit ), modern Tell ed-Der (also Teil ed-Der) in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq, was an ancient Near Eastern city about 70 kilometers north of Babylon, 6 kilometers northeast of Sippar and about 26 kilometers southwest of modern Baghdad. Occupation dates back to the days of the Akkadian Empire and later the Ur III period but most of the development was during the Old Babylonian period. Early archaeologists referred to the site as "Der" or Dair". In the late 1800s archaeologists proposed that this was the location of the

thumb|Tomb relief thumb|Tomb relief The rock-cut tombs of Qyzqapan or Qizqapan (), is a rock-cut tomb lying near the Palaeolithic cave of Zarzi in Iraqi Kurdistan.

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

ِAkkadian-Lullubian archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

site of an ancient Babylonian city

archaeological site

archaeological site in Iraq

thumb|300px|Lower Mesopotamia Apišal (A-pi4-sal4ki) is an ancient Near Eastern city known from the 2nd half of the 3rd millennium BC in the Akkadian Empire period and especially the Ur III Empire period. In Ur III times it was one of four districts of the Umma province along with Da-Umma, Gu’edena, and Mušbiana. It is currently unlocated though it is known to be in the northeastern area of Umma on the Tigris river though it was originally thought to be near Mari due to conflating it with Abarsal. There are no historical mentions of Apišal after the end of the 3rd millennium BC though it does a

Puzrish-Dagan (modern Drehem) (Tall ad-Duraihim) is an important archaeological site in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate (Iraq). It is best known for the thousands of clay tablets that are known to have come from the site through looting during the early twentieth century.

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

Haradum (also Harrâdum), modern Khirbit ed-Diniye (also Khirbet ed-Diniyé), in Al Anbar Governorate Iraq, was an ancient Near East city on the middle Euphrates about 90 kilometers southeast of Mari. It was part of the ancient region of Suhum. The name of the town meant "the place where one stands watch". It was strategically placed on the border of four kingdoms, Eshnunna, Ekallatum, Mari and Babylon and is thought to have been first settled by Eshnunna. It is known that a tollbooth was established on the river and a toll collected.

Shaduppum (Šaduppȗm), modern Tell Harmal (also Tell Abu Harmal and Tel Harmal), is an archaeological site in Baghdad Governorate (Iraq). Nowadays, it lies within the borders of modern Baghdad about 600 meters from the site of Tell Muhammad (possibly ancient Diniktum). In the Old Babylonian period, it was part of the kingdom of Eshnunna. Other cities in the kingdom lie not far away, including Eshnunna (30 miles to the southwest) and Tell Ishchali and Khafajah, four and six miles away on the left bank of the Diyala River. The site of Tell al-Dhiba'i, thought to be the ancient town of Uzarzalulu,

group of Paleolithic cave sites excavated by Dorothy Garrod in 1928

Archaeological mound in Iraq

shrine in Baghdad, Iraq