Ancient Near East Maps

Asia Minor

The Euphrates is one of the two main rivers in Mesopotamia.

Maps of the Ancient Near East.

A map of Armenia.

Maps of the Ancient Near East and maps of the ancient Middle East.

List of the major cities in ancient Asia Minor.

The regions of ancient Asia Minor.

Baghdad (in modern Iraq) is the modern name of a city on the Tigris River north of Babylon.

Map of ancient Mesopotamia showing Mari, Ninevah, Nimrud, Assur, Khorsabad, Nuzi, Eshnunna, Sippar, Babylon, Nippur, Mashkan-Shapir, Borsippa, Kish, Dilbat, Kutu, Adab, Susa, Adab, Isin, Girsu, Lagash, Ur, Eridu, the Diyala, Karkeh, Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Zagros Mountains.

Circular map from 600 B.C. which if the interpretive redrawing is correct shows Babylon, Armenia, and the Bitter River.

Circular map from 600 B.C., which, if the interpretive redrawing is correct, shows Babylon, Armenia, and the Bitter River.

Map of Nippur, 1500 B.C.

B&W map of rivers and cities from the Khabur to the Karkeh River and from Khorsbad to Eridu, Susa to Mari.

Click on map for closeup. Map shows Mesopotamia, Armenia, Syria, and Media.

Located about 50 mi. south of modern Amman, Petra was established in the 6th C BC by nomads and as a commercial empire extended into Syria.

Interactive map using shockwave to show successive political waves from Sumerian to Kassite with Babylonian, Assyrian, and Agade along the way.

Map of the Near East shows major cities all located along waterways, from Troy in the north to Nile delta cities and Memphis in the south. Also shows movements of armies and naval forces.

Map showing areas and time periods for Sumer, Akkadian Empire, and the Old Kingdom of Egypt.

Wall drawing from Catal Hyük, 6200 B.C.

B&W map of the dead sea from Thomas Fuller's A Pisgah-sight of Palestine. Shows Sodom and Gomorrah.

356K JPG city map showing elevations, landmarks, modern and ancient walls.

Shockwave interactive map. Click on map to show extent of Assyrian Epire (660 B.C.), Babylonian Empire (539 B.C.), Persian (520 B.C.), and the Macedonian Empire (323 B.C.).

Map of Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, and Sumer located alongside the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Major cities and other rivers included in line drawing.

Map showing the empire from 1800-1600, 1244-1208, and 699-627 B.C.; includes major cities, including Tarsus, Sidon, Tyre, Jerusalem, Babylon, Ur, Susah and Ninevah, and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

Map of Lebanon, marked with place names believed to be of Canaanite origin.

Successive World Kingdoms. Maps of Persia, Babylon, Assyria, 640-500 BC. Eventually spanning from Libya and Macedonia in the West to the end of the Persian Gulf in the East, maps show the outlines of each empire.

In addition to showing the place name variations between Aramaic, Canaanite, and Arabic, site explains the arbitrary temporal and geographic distinctions between Ancient Near East and Middle East.

Map of modern Lebanon showing Syria and the Mediterranean Sea.

Large JPEG file showing the extent of the Persian Empire with cities. Iran of the Achaemenids.

Small map with names in English and Hebrew.

Town plan map from Ga-Sur, 2500 B.C. with a redrawn map showing what may have been on the original.

Map shows the Nile, Araxata, Istanbul, the Danube, Sardis, Ephesus, Alexandria, the Tigris and Euphrates.

Monograph to accompany a slide of a clay Babylonian map from 6200 BC. Conjectures on earlier map making. Includes bibliography.

Maps of ancient Anatolia, including prehistoric Anatolia, the Anatolia of the Hittites, and Asia Minor in the time of Alexander the Great.

Map of modern Anatolia in Turkey, showing cities.