Archaeological Sites in Iraq
City/town/settlement in Iraq (14)
Abu Salabikh
Abu Salabikh is the site of a small Sumerian city-state located 20 km northwest of ancient Nippur in Iraq. The settlement dates from the Neolithic through the late 3rd millennium…
Ancient Babylon
Capital on the Euphrates, about 85 km south of Baghdad, Iraq. It rose to prominence under Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC) who unified southern Mesopotamia. Under Nebuchadnezzar II, the…
Aššur
Aššur, also known as Ashur and Qal'at Sherqat, was the capital of the Middle Assyrian Empire for a time. The remains of the city lie on the western bank of the Tigris River, north…
Charax Spasinu
Charax Spasinu, also called Charax Spasinou, Charax Pasinu, Spasinu Charax, Alexandria or Antiochia in Susiana, was an ancient port at the head of the Persian Gulf in what is now…
Dur-Sharrukin
Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. The great city was entirely built in the decade preceding 706 BC, when the…
Eridu
Eridu 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,…
Kemune (Zahiku)
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…
Nimrud
Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city (original Assyrian name Kalḫu, biblical name Calah) located in Iraq, 30 kilometres south of the city of Mosul, and 5 kilometres south of the…
Samarra
Samarra, on the east bank of the Tigris 130 km north of Baghdad, is the type site for the prehistoric Samarra culture (c. 5500-4800 BC), one of the earliest town-states in the…
Tel Hermal Fort
Tel Hermal (ancient Shaduppum) is an Old Babylonian site in present-day Baghdad, located 600 meters from Tell Muhammad. It was part of the kingdom of Eshnunna, near other ancient…
Tell Maghzaliyah
Tell Maghzaliyah, in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, is a prehistoric fortified aceramic Mesolithic and Neolithic site located approximately 7.5 km northwest of Yarim Tepe, with which…
Ur
Ur was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq. The city dates from the Ubaid period c.…
Uruk
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,…
Yarim Tepe
Yarim Tepe is an archaeological site of an early farming settlement that goes back to about 6000 BC. It is located in the Sinjar valley some 7km southwest from the town of Tal…
Temple complex in Iraq (4)
Dur-Kurigalzu (Ziggurat at Aqar Quf)
Dur-Kurigalzu (modern Aqar Quf, Baghdad Governorate) was a fortified city and royal residence of the Kassite dynasty, founded by Kurigalzu I around 1400 BC near the confluence of…
Etemenanki (Tower of Babel)
Etemenanki ("House of the foundation of heaven on earth") was a massive ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in ancient Babylon. Its origins may date to Hammurabi's reign (1792-1750 BC),…
Great Ziggurat of Ur
The Ziggurat (or Great Ziggurat) of Ur is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of Ur near Nasiriyah, in present-day Dhi Qar Province, Iraq. The structure was built during…
Temple of Hatra
A fortified Parthian caravan city in northern Iraq, known as Beit Elaha ('House of God') for its numerous temples. Encircled by inner and outer walls nearly 6.4 km in…
Monument in Iraq (3)
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is a black limestone Neo-Assyrian sculpture with many scenes in bas-relief and inscriptions. It comes from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), in northern…
Taq Kasra
Tāq Kasrā (also known as Taq-i Kisra or Arch of Ctesiphon) is the ruins of a Sasanian-era Persian monument dating to c. the 3rd to 6th centuries AD. Located near modern Salman…
White Obelisk
The White Obelisk is a large stone monolith found at the ancient Assyrian settlement of Nineveh. Excavated by the British Assyrian archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in 1853, it is one…
Palace in Iraq (2)
Library of Ashurbanipal
The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing…
Northwest Palace of Ashur-Nasir-Pal II
The Northwest Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) in Iraq was built by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883-859 BC) as part of his transformation of Nimrud into the imperial…
Aqueduct in Iraq (1)
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Megalithic statues in Iraq (1)
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