In this non-exhaustive list, Middle East Eye looks at five ancient empires from the region ... control along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq, pushing down into the Arabian Peninsula ...

In a revelation that bridges millennia, the Babylonian Map of the World, or "Imago Mundi," has emerged as a dazzling relic of ancient geography ... in the museum’s Middle East department.

The Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL), part of the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, is developing a data archive of satellite imagery, aerial photographs and maps ...

“This is the first study to provide the first map of the long-lost ancient branch of the Nile River.” Ghoneim and her colleagues refer to this extinct branch of the Nile river as ...