Image Resource Bank

Image Gallery |  11 of 15

One of the two great rivers of Mesopotamia, the Tigris emerges from the Taurus Mountains (visible in left background of this photo) at Melekiyya in northeastern Syria, at the Turkish border.

 Satellite Image of Iraq and Iran

Name: Tigris River

Material: Digital photograph

Size: Unknown

Place of Origin: Melekiyya, Syria

Date: Unknown

Location: Unknown

Source and Registration#: Collection of Geoff Emberling, Chief Curator of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

Geoff Emberling

Former Chief Curator, Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago