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🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Islamic (5600 BCE–1500 CE; urban peak MBA 2000–1500 BCE) · Zagros Chalcolithic → Early Dynastic Zagros → Old Babylonian peripheral → Kassite → Islamic
45 m Zagros mound with Old Babylonian archive linking Babylon to Iranian intermontane valley.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Old Babylonian (Isin-Larsa) 1950–1750 BCE · Babylonian (Isin-Larsa)
Old Babylonian fortified administrative town (c.1900–1750 BCE, Isin-Larsa to Hammurabi era) now Tell Harmal on Baghdad's eastern edge, dominated by central 25x25 m raised temple platform (ziggurat…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Isin-Larsa, Old Babylonian · Akkadian/Amorite — Old Babylonian
Mound in eastern Baghdad now within urban fringe, excavated by Taha Baqir (1945–63), preserving complete Old Babylonian administrative quarter with 3000 cuneiform tablets covering law, mathematics…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (3000–1750 BCE) · Akkadian, Eshnunna, Babylonian
Provincial capital of Hamrin–Diyala corridor identified as Me-Turan, twin to Tell Haddad and Tell al-Sib excavated 1977–87 by Iraqi State Board before Hamrin Dam, yielding 3000 cuneiform tablets of…