🇮🇶Iraq

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city

Muṣaṣir (Mudjesir)

Iron Age (1000–714 BCE) · Hurro-Urartian

Iron Age (1000–714 BCE) ancient-city of Hurro-Urartian in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Sidekan (c.1000 BCE).

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Uruk Buried Eanna Precinct Limestone Temple Foundation

Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA

Uruk Buried Eanna Precinct Limestone Temple Foundation in Muthanna, Uruk, Iraq is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city

Nuzi Palace Archive Room 5

Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age

Nuzi Palace Archive Room 5 in Kirkuk, Yorghan Tepe, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city

Zabalam (Tell Ibzeikh) – Sumerian Temple Harbour on Iturungal

Early Dynastic to Isin-Larsa (c. 2900 – 2000 BCE) · Sumerian / Lagash-Umma / Ur III / Isin-Larsa

Inanna's canal port on Lagash–Umma waterway – Iturungal harbour revetment 40 m at –2 m.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city

Jarmo

Jarmo (Kurdish: چەرمۆ, romanized: Çermo or Qelay Çermo, also Qal'at Jarmo) is a prehistoric archeological site located in modern Iraqi Kurdistan on the foothills of the Zagros Mountains.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex

Upper Eridu Hilltop North — Eridu (53-47)

Classical (regional) · Classical

Upper Eridu Hilltop North — Eridu (53-47) at Eridu, Iraq is a Classical (regional) temple complex of the Classical tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Tell al-Rimah (Qattara/Karana)

EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian

Tell al-Rimah (Qattara/Karana) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Nineveh Governorate.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Northern Eridu Citadel Central — Eridu (53-38)

Medieval (regional) · Medieval

Northern Eridu Citadel Central — Eridu (53-38) at Eridu, Iraq is a Medieval (regional) tell of the Medieval tradition, built c. 200 CE for citadel and associated settlement.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid

Tell Arpachiyah — Halaf Painted Pottery Mound

Halaf, Ubaid (6100–5500 BCE) · Halaf culture

Low mound outside Mosul lending name to Late Halaf painted ware zenith, excavated 1933 by Max Mallowan and John Cruikshank Rose and 1976 by Ismail Hijara.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city

Umma (Tell Jokha)

Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (c.2900–1700 BCE; peak Lagash–Umma border war 2500–2350 BCE) · Sumerian (Umma ensi dynasty) → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa

Lagash's blood-enemy with Stele-of-Vultures war archive and 20,000 Ur III tablets of a date-palm oligarchy.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village

Mlefaat

Protoneolithic (10500–9500 BCE) · Zarzian Epipalaeolithic–PPN

Protoneolithic (10500–9500 BCE) Zarzian Epipalaeolithic–PPN ancient village at Erbil Governorate, Greater Zab tributary – open-air forager base preceding first villages (dims Scatter 3000 m² with huts and ground stone).

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city

Nineveh

Neolithic to Abbasid (6000 BCE–present; Assyrian capital 705–612 BCE) · Assyrian / Babylonian / Persian / Hellenistic / Parthian

Great Assyrian capital under Sennacherib (705–681 BCE) extended by Ashurbanipal (668–630 BCE), Nineveh at fall (612 BCE) was world's largest city (~15 km walls, 100,000 inhabitants).

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Sippar

Early Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c.3000–539 BCE; peak OB 1800–1600, NB 626–539) · Sumerian → Amorite (Babylon) → Kassite → Neo-Babylonian

Sippar — twin tell-city on Euphrates (Abu Habbah = Sippar-Yahrurum, Tell ed-Der = Sippar-Amnanum) and cult centre of Shamash sun-god with great Ebabbar temple,...

🇮🇶 Iraq · Submerged site

Sunken City off Cist Northfield

Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian

Sunken City off Cist Northfield in Dhi Qar, Iraq is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) submerged city attributed to Mississippian culture.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Necropolis

Necropolis of Roxby Dale

Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine

Necropolis of Roxby Dale in Dhi Qar, Iraq is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) necropolis attributed to Byzantine culture.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Tell Rashid (Hamrin)

Ubaid (5000–4300 BCE) · Ubaid

Ubaid (5000–4300 BCE) Ubaid tell at Diyala Governorate, Hamrin – ubaid village with grain storages (dims 1.1 ha).

🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works

Nineveh Khinis (Bavian) Aqueduct Head — Sennacherib Mountain Aqueduct Source

Neo-Assyrian 690 BCE · Neo-Assyrian Sennacherib

Mountain head reliefs and 17-spring capture merging to 55 km Nineveh canal.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city

Kish

Early Dynastic Sumer to Akkadian · Sumerian / Akkadian

Key Sumerian city-state (c.3100–2000 BCE) dominating Early Dynastic Sumer, palace A, ziggurat, mentioned in King List as first city to have kingship after Flood. Discovered library archives.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Fortress Citadel Mideast 98 — Iraq Region 2

Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell

Fortress Citadel Mideast 98 — Iraq Region 2 in Iraq Region 2, Iraq is a Bronze Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village

Magzalia — Jarmo Outlier Neolithic Village

Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) · Jarmo-related

Magzalia — Jarmo Outlier Neolithic Village in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Jarmo-related.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder

Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta

Assyrian Empire

Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (modern Tulul ul Aqar (Telul al-Aqr) in Salah al-Din Governorate, Iraq) was a new cult center for Ashur and perhaps a new capital city founded by the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta…

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Bakr Awa

Chalcolithic to Islamic (c.5000 BCE–1500 CE; Bronze citadel LBA) · Chalcolithic → Bronze (Shahrizor) → Iron → Achaemenid → Islamic

Shahrizor 40 ha citadel (5000 BCE–1500 CE) with Bronze tablets of Idu dynasty near Halabja.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Choga Mami

Samarran to Ubaid (c.6000–5000 BCE; Samarran floruit 6000–5500 BCE) · Samarran → Choga Mami Transitional → Ubaid

Samarran irrigated village (6000 BCE) with earliest canal (2 km) east of Mandali.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Telul eth-Thalathat

Hassuna to Uruk (c.6000–3100 BCE; Halaf-Ubaid emphasis) · Hassuna → Halaf (Thalathat painted) → Ubaid → Uruk

Five-mound Halaf-Ubaid reference (6000–3100 BCE) on Wadi Khuzna south of Tel Afar.