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Yet if he had been willing in the beginning to cross the Tigris with his entire army , I believe he could have taken all the plunder in the land of Assyria , and marched as far as the city of Ctesiphon , with none to hinder him . It would have been a miracle indeed if these primitive conceptions , wrought out with so much poetic vigour in that earlier civilization on the Tigris and Euphrates , had failed to influence the Hebrews , who during the most plastic periods of their development were under the tutelage of their Chaldean neighbours . Mesopotamia , situated between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris ; while the southern half , extending as far south as the Persian Gulf , constitutes the countries of Babylonia and Chaldea . The British weekly " the Middle East " said in its recent issue that Turkey 's minimizing of the water flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to each of Syria and Lebanon is considered the main reason behind the tension between Turkey and its Arab neighbors . USA Today has learned that the " massive new embassy , being built on the banks of the Tigris River , is designed to be entirely self-sufficient and wo n't be dependent on Iraq 's unreliable public utilities .