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Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia. The geography of Mesopotamia, encompassing its ethnology and history, centered on the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates.While the southern is flat and marshy, the near approach of the two rivers to one another, at a spot where the undulating plateau of the north sinks suddenly into the Babylonian alluvium, tends to separate them still more ...
Mesopotamia – introduction to Mesopotamia from the British Museum By Nile and Tigris, a narrative of journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British museum between the years 1886 and 1913 , by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge , 1920 (a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries; DjVu & layered PDF format)
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
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Map of Mesopotamia during the kingdom of Shamshi-Adad I showing the location of Suhum near the Euphrates Suhum ( Sūḫu , or Suhi [ 1 ] ) was an ancient geographic region around the middle course of the Euphrates River , in modern Al Anbar Governorate , Iraq.
A map of Mesopotamia showing Waššukanni, Nineveh, Hatra, Assur, Nuzi, Palmyra, Mari, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Nippur, Isin, Lagash, Uruk, Charax Spasinu and Ur, from ...
name = East Upper Mesopotamia Name used in the default map caption; image = East Upper Mesopotamia topographic map-blank.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 38.66 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 33.58 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 40.3 Longitude at left edge of map ...