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Geography of Mesopotamia
The area known as Mesopotamia—Greek for "land between the rivers"—encompasses the territory in and around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their tributaries. The rivers stretch some 1,700 miles to the southeast, from their headwaters in Turkey to their common mouth on the Persian Gulf. The region is bounded to the north and east by the Taurus and Zagros mountains, and to the west by the great Syrian Desert, and roughly corresponds with modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and southeastern Turkey. In antiquity, the world's earliest urban centers develop in Sumer and Akkad, or Babylonia to the south, and later in Assyria to the north.


West Asia, Iraq , West Asia, Eastern Mediterranean

Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Geography of Anatolia and the Caucasus, Geography of Iran, Geography of the Arabian Peninsula, Geography of The Eastern Mediterranean, The Phoenicians (ca. 1500-300 B.C.), The Origins of Writing in Mesopotamia, The Seleucid Empire (323-64 B.C.), Early Dynastic Sculpture, 2900–2350 B.C., Abridged List of Rulers: The Ancient Greek World, Abridged List of Rulers: Mesopotamia, Abridged List of Rulers: Roman Empire, Assyria, 1365–609 B.C.,

Mesopotamia, 8000-2000 B.C., Mesopotamia, 2000-1000 B.C., Mesopotamia, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.,

West Asia, 8000-2000 B.C., West Asia, 2000-1000 B.C., West Asia, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.