 Classical writers located it where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are closest together and it was mentioned along with Kish in early records.Archaeologists in the 1900s placed Akshak at the site of Tel Omar (or Tel Umar) where a pair of sites straddles the Tigris, but that turned out to be Seleucia (possibly earlier Upi/Opis) when it was excavated by LeRoy Waterman of the American Schools of Oriental Research, though a fragment with the name Akshak was found there.Michael C. Astour placed it on the Tigris, on what is now the southern outskirts of Baghdad.