From Mesopotamia to Iraq

Today's Iraq is synonymous with conflicts and violence. Nevertheless, it was once the Garden of Eden and the cradle of our civilization, then called Mesopotamia. Already written into the land were its wars, religion, prosperity, and its oil. It embraces the once fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers where humans built cities, invented the wheel, devised irrigation systems, developed a written language and codified laws 6,000 years ago. A complex society appeared at least a century before it did in Egypt and more than 1,000 years before the Hsia Dynasty in China. Excavation of whole cities began around 1840 and has since yielded a wondrous variety of monuments and treasures.

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