The word "Mesopotamia," is an ancient Greek name that is sometimes translated as "the land between two rivers" — the rivers being the Euphrates and the Tigris, both of which originate in eastern ...

The Land Between Two Rivers. Even the name Mesopotamia itself gives a clue about its geography: “meso” means middle, and “potamos” means river in Greek.This fertile land between the Tigris ...

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History Moudhy Al-Rashid. Norton, $31.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-324-03642-5 ...

Between Two Rivers Moudhy Al-Rashid (Hachette (UK, 20 February); W. W. Norton (US, 12 August)). A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land ...

The word Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek name that is often translated as "the land between two rivers" — the rivers being the Euphrates and the Tigris, both of which originate in eastern Turkey ...

Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek word for “the land between two rivers” – the Tigris and Euphrates. People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on those rivers, but rivers are not always dependable.

In Greek, Mesopotamia means 'land between the rivers', and the term came to be applied to the land between the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, which flow from eastern Turkey ...

Situated in the fertile valley between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers, ancient Mesopotamia, known as the “Land Between Two Rivers,” is home to modern day Iraq and Syria.

Philadelphia and Mesopotamia have something in common: They’re both situated between two rivers. That’s the meaning of the word “Mesopotamia,” a region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ...