Ubaid period

Ur ( or ) was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar () in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq. Although Ur was a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coastline has shifted and the site is now well inland, on the south bank of the Euphrates, southwest of the city of Nasiriyah. The city dates from the Ubaid period , and is recorded in written history as a city-state from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesannepada.

Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East or West Asia, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq. The site lies 93 kilometers (58 miles) northwest of ancient Ur, 108 kilometers (67 miles) southeast of ancient Nippur, and 24 kilometers (15 miles) northwest of ancient Larsa.

Eridu (; Sumerian: eridugki; Akkadian: irîtu) was a Sumerian city located at Tell Abu Shahrain (), also Abu Shahrein or Tell Abu Shahrayn, an archaeological site in Lower Mesopotamia. It is located in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, near the modern city of Basra. Eridu is traditionally considered the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia based on the Sumerian King List. Located south-southwest of the ancient site of Ur, Eridu was the southernmost of a conglomeration of Sumerian cities that grew around temples, almost in sight of one another. The city gods of Eridu were Enki and his consort Damkina.

archaeological culture

citadel and archaeological settlement hill in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan

Archaeological site in Syria

archeological site in Iraq

Hamoukar (, known locally as Khirbat al-Fakhar) is a large archaeological site located in the Jazira region of northeastern Syria (Al Hasakah Governorate), near the Iraqi and Turkish borders. The early settlement dates back to the 5th millennium BCE, and it existed simultaneously with the Ubaid and the early Uruk cultures. It was a major center of obsidian production. In the 3rd millennium, this was one of the largest cities of Northern Mesopotamia, and extended to 105 ha.

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

place in UAE

human settlement

neolithic site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

motif in ancient art showing a human between and grasping two confronted animals

island in Qatar

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

archaeological site in Iran

Hypothetical unclassified language of late Neolithic Mesopotamia

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

archaeological site in Iraq

body of water

archaeological site in Iraq

place in Al-Shahaniya Municipality, Qatar