🇮🇶 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.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Shemshara
Hassuna to Islamic (c.6200 BCE–1200 CE; archive Late Bronze c.1800 BCE) · Hassuna → Halaf → Ubaid → MBA Shamshera kingdom → Islamic
Dokan MBA palace mound with 150-tablet Shamshera kingdom archive (1800 BCE) on Lower Zab.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Gubba
Ubaid to Jemdet Nasr (c.5500–3000 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → Jemdet Nasr Hamrin
Hamrin Ubaid tripartite centre (5500 BCE) with sealings in Hamrin basin.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Al Zaqura Building
Al-Zaqura Palace (Arabic: قصر الزقورة) is an Iraqi government building situated in the Green Zone in the capital Baghdad.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Kisurra
ED to Isin-Larsa (c.3000–1750 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Kisurra (Abu Hatab) is a Sumerian city-state between Isin and Larsa, with ED palace and Ur III archive. German excavations (1900, 1990s) revealed city wall (2 k...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Eski Mosul
Eski Mosul (Arabic: أسكي موصل) is a village in Mosul District, in present-day northern Iraq. Located just downstream from the Mosul Dam, Eski Mosul is the site of the ancient and medieval city of Balad.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Bassetki
Bassetki (Kurdish: باستکێ, romanized: Bassetkî) is a small village in Iraq, in Dohuk Governorate of autonomous Kurdistan Region. The village is associated with several archaeological finds.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Khinnis Reliefs
Khinnis is an Assyrian archaeological site, also known as Bavian (its neighbouring village), in Duhok Governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Barda Balka
Barda Balka is an archeological site near the Little Zab and Chamchamal in the Iraqi Kurdistan, north of modern-day Iraq.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Al-Ukhaidir Fortress
The Fortress of Al-Ukhaidir (Arabic: حصن الأخيضر) or Abbasid palace of Ukhaider is located roughly 50 km south of Karbala, Iraq.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Girdi Qala and Logardan
Girdi Qala and Logardan (a few hundred meters to the north) are adjacent ancient Near East archaeological sites in Sulaymānīyah Governorate in northeast Iraq in the Kurdistan region, parts of a…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Al-Hira
Al-Hira (Arabic: الحيرة, romanized: al-Ḥīra Middle Persian: Hērt ) was an ancient city and a major metropolis located in Mesopotamia, in what is now south-central Iraq.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Great Mosque of Kufa
The Great Mosque of Kufa (Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلْكُوفَة, romanized: Masjid al-Kūfa) is one of the earliest surviving mosques in the world, located in Kufa, Iraq.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Anbar (town)
Anbar (Arabic: الأنبار, romanized: al-Anbār, Syriac: ܐܢܒܐܪ, romanized: Anbar) was an ancient and medieval town in central Iraq.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Der (Sumer)
Der (Sumerian: 𒌷𒂦𒀭𒆠 uruBAD3.ANki; Akkadian: 𒌷𒂦𒀭𒆠 uruBAD3.ANki or 𒌷𒁲𒂊𒊒(𒆠) urude-e-ru(ki)) was a Sumerian city-state at the site of modern Tell Aqar near al-Badra in Iraq's Wasit…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Haradum
Haradum (also Harrâdum), modern Khirbit ed-Diniye (also Khirbet ed-Diniyé), in Al Anbar Governorate Iraq, was an ancient Near East city on the middle Euphrates about 90 kilometers southeast of Mari.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Dilbat
Early Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c.3000–539 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → OB → Kassite → NB
Dilbat (Tell al-Deylam, ancient Dulbat) is a 30-ha Sumerian town 30 km south of Babylon on the Arahtu canal, centre of the grain-goddess Uraš and later Nabu of...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Drehem
Ur III (c.2112–2004 BCE; peak Shulgi–Ibbi-Sin c.2050 BCE) · Ur III state (Third Dynasty of Ur)
Ur III state cattle redistribution centre Puzrish-Dagan (Drehem) — Shulgi's royal livestock agency (c.2050 BCE) processing thousands of cattle/sheep for Ur and...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Idu (city)
Idu, also Idum (Sātu Qalā) was an ancient Near Eastern town in the Erbil Governorate in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, on the right bank of the Lower Zab.