The Tigris is the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, and empty into the Persian Gulf.

This is the place where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet - the Cradle of Civilization - and the first landing place of the Anunnaki when Earth was terraformed.

Ancient Oceanic Plate Rips Apart Beneath Iraq and Iran. In the past sediments eroded from the Zagros mountains forming plains such as Mesopotamia. -   SciTech Daily - February 4, 2025

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Gray Aliens

Archaeologists in Kuwait have discovered a 7,000-year-old clay figurine that looks eerily similar to a modern-day depiction of an alien.   Live Science - April 11, 2025
This figurine may look more supernatural than human, its style was common in ancient Mesopotamia, although it's the first of its kind ever to be found in Kuwait or the Arabian Gulf. The small, finely crafted head, with slanted eyes, a flat nose and an elongated skull, was found during excavations this year at Bahra 1, a prehistoric site in northern Kuwait where a joint Kuwaiti-Polish team has been excavating since 2009. Bahra 1 was one of the Arabian Peninsula's oldest settlements, with occupation lasting from around 5500 to 4900 B.C.

When I wrote the story of Sarah and Alexander - protagonists Sarah and her friend Amaan follow clues to a place where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet, now an almost dried up river bed. Suddenly a UFO emerges from the murky water beaming a light towards a mountain nearby. It was there they have a mystical experience which sets the stage for the rest of the story.

Euphrates River Is Drying Up And Crisis Looms, Just As The Bible Warned   Science Alert - March 11, 2023
In the Bible, it's said when the Euphrates river runs dry then immense things are on the horizon, perhaps even the foretelling of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the rapture. For thousands of years, the twin rivers have allowed farming communities and grand cities to flourish in Mesopotamia, which is considered the cradle of some of the world's earliest civilizations. For several decades, it's become increasingly apparent that the Tigris-Euphrates river system is drying out.

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where - with its twin river the Euphrates - it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilization thousands of years ago. This summer in Baghdad, the level of the Tigris dropped so low that people played volleyball in the middle of the river, splashing barely waist-deep through its waters.

Mesopotamia ~ Ancient Sumer

Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates - a river that fed the 'cradle of civilization'   Live Science - June 2, 2026

Around 5.4 million years ago, two rivers flowed across present-day Turkey and Syria and into the Mediterranean Sea - and eventually, they would merge to form the Euphrates River, new research suggests. The merged river would play a pivotal role in the development of early human civilizations in the Fertile Crescent.