What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

These include Assyria and Elam (neighboring kingdoms), mountains, marshes, and the Euphrates River, which flows through Babylon and divides the map.

Is the Euphrates River drying up? Learn how climate change, human impact and regional politics are driving this crisis, and what it means for the Middle East.

The region east of Euphrates spreads to more than 45,000 square kilometers (17,374 square miles). According to Anadolu Agency's map calculations, the area forms one third of Syrian territories.

Fed by the Euphrates River, these canals required extensive upkeep and work to water the network of farms.

The northern and north-eastern side of Jebel Bishri parallels at the Euphrates River. The area belongs to the Fertile Crescent. Village life expanded with irrigation agriculture on the Euphrates.

The Euphrates’ existing resource security challenges have been compounded by upheaval in Syria and Iraq. Without urgent attention, stresses on the river’s resources will add to the catastrophic ...

A look at a map confirms that all along the Euphrates river in Iraq, IS is winning, from the northeastern border town of al-Qa'im which was taken in June, to the now besieged community of Amiriyat ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces on Sunday briefly captured four villages east of the Euphrates River in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour after rare clashes with U.S.-backed Kurdish ...