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46.1 million people were counted in Iraq’s first census in nearly 40 years
Iraq, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File) This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo) FILE -Workers prepare to collect information from the public as Iraq began its ...
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Oldest map of the world on nearly 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet deciphered to reveal surprisingly familiar story
The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.