Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran, formed a significant part of the Fertile Crescent. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates ...

West Asia The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through modern-day Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They were the cradle of one of the world’s earliest civilizations: Mesopotamia. Today, the Tigris and ...

Atatürk Dam is Turkey’s largest. Named after Kemal Atatürk, the country’s founder, the dam was built on the Euphrates River in the 1980s as part of Turkey’s sweeping Southeastern Anatolia ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the Persian Gulf, is often regarded as the birthplace of urban civilization.