FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers ... What is somewhat surprising, though, is that a map of the area was produced at all. Landholdings in Mesopotamia were typically described rather ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present ... a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah, a pilgrimage route from Iraq's Kufa to Mecca in Saudi Arabia built more ...