Editing Tigris (section)

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The Tigris has long been an important transport route in a largely desert country. Shallow-draft vessels can go as far as Baghdad, but rafts have historically been needed for transport downstream from [[Mosul]].<ref>Namio Egami, "The Report of The Japan Mission For The Survey of Under-Water Antiquities At Qurnah: The First Season," (1971-72), 1-45, https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/orient1960/8/0/8_0_1/_pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031234121/https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/orient1960/8/0/8_0_1/_pdf |date=2018-10-31 }}.</ref><ref>Larsen, M.T., ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=jK8c4E2zkUMC The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326164822/https://books.google.com/books?id=jK8c4E2zkUMC |date=2023-03-26 }},'' Routledge, 2014, pp 344-49</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Battle1408Mesopotamia.htm|title=Mesopotamia, Tigris-Euphrates, 1914-1917, despatches, killed and died, medals|work=naval-history.net|access-date=28 November 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119012635/http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Battle1408Mesopotamia.htm|archive-date=19 November 2015}}</ref>