Here it is. Tiger. Panthera Tigris.

The books and the solution get thrown in the Tigris River.

All the books from Bait al Hikma library, the most famous library in its day, were thrown in the Tigris River, and the Tigris changes color with ink.

Babylon declined after the founding of Seleucia on the Tigris, the new Seleucid Empire capital.

Whatever units that remained after 1991 were used primarily for safeguarding Saddam's palaces on the Tigris river.

Baghdad has at least 12 bridges spanning the Tigris river joining the east and west of the city.

This region was the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, where the world s first known cities sprang up near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

The lack of operational sewage pumping stations and treatment plants constitutes the main cause of environmental pollution of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

As a compromise, it received the vernacular name Malayan tiger and the scientific name Panthera tigris jacksoni , which honours the tiger conservationist Peter Jackson.

centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

The need for irrigation led the Sumerians, and later the Akkadians, to build their cities along the Tigris and Euphrates and the branches of these rivers.

And just as the violent and capricious Tigris and Euphrates rivers shaped the worldview of early Mesopotamians, the Nile shaped the world view of the Egyptians.

After the Siege of Gaza, Alexander advanced from Syria towards the heart of the Persian empire, crossing both the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers without any opposition.

Baghdad and it was said that the Tigris, a river, ran blue for weeks because of the ink that dissolved in the waters from the Bagdad library.

(b) The team took water samples from 15 sites and from various segments of the Tigris, Euphrates, Lesser Zab, Greater Zab and Diyala rivers and the Habbaniyah Lake.

Al Awja ( also known as Owja, Al Auja or Al Ouja) is a village 8 miles (13 km) south of Tikrit, in Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris.

Some librarians escape, and over the course of days and weeks, they dip the stones into the Tigris and suck up that collective wisdom that we all think is lost to civilization.

In the river valley between the Tigris and the Euphrates, it was possible to grow a surplus of food that allowed for an organization of society where not everybody had to be in the fields all the time.

The marshlands are natural lowlands located on the lower reaches of the rivers of the southern region, and the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers used to flow into them in the flood seasons and thus raise water levels.

We believe that progress in the peace process and in finding solutions for water issues between Israel and Palestine would also help to unblock progress in the broader region, between the parties on the Jordan, the Orontes, the Tigris, and the Euphrates rivers.