EditorialAn ivory casket with a painting of Bocca Tigris, on the Pearl River Delta, China, Qing dynasty, at the Jewish Museum in New York, March 1, 2023. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialKing Ashurbanipal's campaign against Elam (645 BCE) Soldiers lead prisoners along the banks of the river Tigris. From the palace of King Ashurbanipal in Niniveh Gypseous alabaster relief AO 19906.
EditorialTrees with birds in the gardens of Sennacherib by the Tigris near Niniveh. Stone bas-relief (7th BCE) from the palace of Niniveh, Mesopotamia (Iraq) .
EditorialThe Central Bank of Iraq tower, designed by the renowned Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid, under construction on the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad, Sept. 6, 2022. (Emily Garthwaite/The New York Times)