With their former glorious cities in ruins and their once lush land a scorching desert, the lives and civilizations of the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia have never seemed more distant to us. Although we find it easy to relegate them to the dusty shelves of history, we are left with one inescapable fact: that the seed for what is today the Western civilization was planted long ago among the river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. The Sumerians,...
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