The peculiarities linked with this world heritage site of Iraq are many; the site reflects the confusion of the historians and failure of academic scholarship both in writings of the history as well as in understanding etymological origin of the word Hatra. The migrants’ own history is not linked with Hatra; because Hatra describes a region and history of its people reflects the history of the whole of the ‘inhabited world’.  This heritage site of Iraq tells the history of ancient Arab along with history of the most of the early dynasties linked with the beginning of the human civilization. Academic confusion becomes more clear when etymology of hatra finds a home for it in many languages.

Scholars see htr of the Hatrene inscriptions as  Ḥaṭrā , which according to them, means “enclosure, hedge, fence,” denoting a fortified settlement; some other scholars find it the same as Arabic pace and  Syrian Ḥaṭrē.

Hatra refers to Hittite of the Bible and Hataka of Pali and Indian puranic traditions; htr of the Hatrene Inscriptions means ‘hotra’, means ‘oblations’; It identifies a group of people engaged with ‘fire sacrifices’. Greek atra/atrai does not refer to Hatra as some scholars think. It identifies Atropene of the Avesta and Attabi’Attapi or Atharvan of Indian puranas that marks people of the mountainous regions. It very significantly identifies Wutu/Ita/Ota of other inscriptions. It marks the ancient Othaka as same as Ithica of Homer’s epics.

Hatra includes the region of the Manasarovara Lake(or Manasseh), ancient Petra, and the whole of the Negev(means ‘south’) which finds ancient Troy within its geographical situation.

Arabic al-Hadr similarly never represents Hatra as scholars have noted in their writings; it stands for Hade of Homeric epics; it may mark hrada(means ‘lake) that identifies Caspian Sea itself; because ‘al’ always refers to a ‘sacred’ place of worship. Scholars link ancient Hatra with Ninawa Governorate of present-day Iraq; it is also not correct.

Name Iraq finds its root in ‘Arka’(of Indian puranas) or ‘uruk’ (of the Bible) that defines its ancient position along with City of Sun. Its geographical situation is different from the ancient Hittite whose etymological origin is linked with ‘Hata’ means ‘market’.

Ancient texts paint Hatra as a place where different types of people lived; this charaterstic of the place marks it as a market place: term Semitic, which is both Aramaic and Arabic names, has been misunderstood;  mlkʾ is not a royal title; it refers either to Mallick/Malicha or Malika or Mulaka(means a ‘region’), also a place in Malla country; d-ʿrb does not mean ‘king of ʿArab’ but ‘country of ‘Rabi’; and from the name ‘Rabi’, the name Arab has been derived. Rulers of Hatra should not be seen as Araban Rulers. The reason that a considerable number of Iranian names are found in Arab is that as Arab finds its root in ‘Rabi’, Iran finds its root in Aruna’; and both Rabi and Aruna bear the same meaning ‘Rabi’ or the ‘Sun’.

The term Akkadian refers to Arka or Acco or the City of Sun near Panchaia, the city of frankincense. Assyrians marks the city of Seir as same as the Kingdom of Mesh from which the name of Mesopotamia has been derived. Seir and Moab again were neighbourly to Arka or the City of Sun or the City of Aruna, the biblical Arunah. All of them collectively pinpoint the Canaan of the Bible and Kanana or Kanvaya of Indian puranas. Sasanians refers to ancient Saus from which the term ‘Sasana’ of Indian puranas have been derived. It was a place in the Negev or the ‘South’ near Manasarovara Lake.

All writers agree that Hatra was under the rule of the Parthian Kings; but no historian ever has correctly identified the royal seat of administration of the Parthians as noted by Ptolemy and Eratosthenes in their maps. Name Partha occurs in the epic the Mahabharata; it is the other name of Arjuna. This shows that Arjuna or the ancient Arjuneyyas were the Parthas. Name Trojan sees its root in ‘Arjuneyyas’ which means ancient Troy was the land of the Arjuneyyas. Seat of Parthians identifies ancient Troy itself. It is very interesting to note that seat of Baal deities to whom biblical scholarship failed to identify as same as the pygmies were dwellers of the Negev near Saus. From this name Baalbek has been derived. Name of Palmyra similarly finds its root in Balmika as same as the ancient Bahika or Balhika which identifies the ancient Babylon near Abadana which was situated on the plain of the river Tigris derived from the name Bagha which means ‘Tiger’; the river Euphrates sees its root in Bhratu whose branch river was called Balakhilya that identifies the Baal of the Bible.