🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Abada (Hamrin)
Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5500 BCE) · Hassuna–Samarra
Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5500 BCE) Hassuna–Samarra tell at Diyala Governorate, Hamrin – three-level incised-hassuna village (dims 2.8 ha, 3 m Hassuna–Samarra).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Songor A (Hamrin)
Ubaid (5000–4000 BCE) · Ubaid
Ubaid (5000–4000 BCE) Ubaid tell at Diyala Governorate, Hamrin Basin – hamrin rescue ubaid houses with hassuna sherds (dims 0.9 ha Ubaid village).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Bala Midfield
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Tell Bala Midfield in Dhi Qar, Iraq is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) tell attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Necropolis
Necropolis of Dara-Wadi
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Necropolis of Dara-Wadi in Dhi Qar, Iraq is a Moche (100–800 CE) necropolis attributed to Moche culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Megalith
Mound 72 Beaded Burial Extension — Southern Alluvium (Nasiriyah)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Mound 72 Beaded Burial Extension in Southern Alluvium, Iraq is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Kish (Tell Ingharra & Uhaimir)
Jemdet Nasr to Old Babylonian / Neo-Babylonian, c.3100–580 BCE · Sumerian → Akkadian → Babylonian
Twin tells of Kish — Ingharra (Temple Mound) and Uhaimir (Palace Mound) with ziggurats. Tell Uhaimir ziggurat (Ekišiba, Temple of Zababa) 30 × 40 m base, 13 m extant mudbrick massif with plano-convex…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
El Kula Brick Pyramid
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
El Kula Brick Pyramid in Southern Alluvium, Iraq is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Ctesiphon (Taq Kasra)
Parthian to Early Islamic (c.120 BCE–800 CE; Sassanian vault 540 CE under Khosrow I) · Parthian / Sassanian (Persian) / Byzantine influence
Sassanian imperial capital complex (224–651 CE) on Tigris, Ctesiphon comprised Seleucia-Tisfun-Mahouza conurbation.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Larsa
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian · Sumerian/Amorite Larsa dynasty
Sumerian city-state that dominated southern Mesopotamia under King Rim-Sin (1822–1763 BCE) controlling 10–15 cities before Hammurapi annexed it, making Babylon supreme.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Bestansur — Shahrizor Neolithic Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8000–7000 BCE) · Zagros Neolithic (Bestansur–Jarmo)
Bestansur — Shahrizor Neolithic Tell in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8000–7000 BCE) tell attributed to Zagros Neolithic (Bestansur–Jarmo).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell al-Hawa — Mosul Steppe Center
Uruk to Neo-Assyrian (4000–600 BCE) 66 ha · Uruk then Neo-Assyrian provincial
Tell al-Hawa — Mosul Steppe Center in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq is a Uruk to Neo-Assyrian (4000–600 BCE) 66 ha tell attributed to Uruk then Neo-Assyrian provincial.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Hassuna — Nineveh Plain Type Site
Hassuna (6000–5800 BCE) · Hassuna culture
Tell Hassuna — Nineveh Plain Type Site in Nineveh Governorate, Tigris plain, Iraq is a Hassuna (6000–5800 BCE) tell attributed to Hassuna culture culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Hassuna — Hassuna Culture Type Site
Hassuna (6000–5500 BCE) · Hassuna culture
Tell Hassuna — Hassuna Culture Type Site in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq is a Hassuna (6000–5500 BCE) tell attributed to Hassuna culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Haddad
Early Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c.3000–500 BCE; OB peak c.1800) · Sumerian → Old Babylonian → Kassite → Neo-Babylonian
Twin-mound (with Tell al-Sib) on Diyala-Adhaim — ancient Mê-Turran/Turran cult city with Adad temple and ziggurat podium. Iraqi–Italian Hamrin Dam rescue excava...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Umm Dabaghiyah
Pottery Neolithic (c.6000–5800 BCE; single horizon) · Hassuna-related onager-hunting specialized
Onager-hunting camp (6000 BCE) with painted hunt murals and 4,000 onager bones on Hatra steppe.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tepe Asiya — Kifri Neolithic Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9000–6000 BCE) · Zagros Neolithic
Tepe Asiya — Kifri Neolithic Tell in Salah ad-Din, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9000–6000 BCE) tell attributed to Zagros Neolithic.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Babylon Rotana Baghdad Hotel
The Babylon Rotana Baghdad Hotel is a 284-room hotel on the banks of the Tigris River, in the Al-Jadriya district of Baghdad, Iraq.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Mosul
The Great Mosque of al-Nuri (Arabic: جامع النوري, romanized: Jāmiʿ an-Nūrī), also known as the Nouri Mosque, is a Sunni mosque in Mosul, in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq, famous for its leaning…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Fortress
Citadel of Erbil
The Citadel of Erbil (Kurdish: قەڵای هەولێر Qelay Hewlêr, Arabic: قلعة اربيل, romanized: Qal'at Erbīl), locally called Qellat, is a tell or occupied mound, and the historical city centre of Erbil in…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Abu Salabikh
The archaeological site of Abu Salabikh (Tell Abū Ṣalābīkh), around 20 km (12 mi) northwest of the site of ancient Nippur and about 150 kilometers southeast of the modern city of Baghdad in…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Hadji Muhammed
Hadji Muhammed is an archaeological site in Southern Iraq which gives its name to a style of painted pottery and the early phase of what is the Ubaid culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Rock art
Shanidar Cave Neanderthal Flower Burial Niche
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Shanidar Cave Neanderthal Flower Burial Niche in Erbil, Shanidar Cave, Iraq is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.