So much of who we are was born in ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the (Tigris and Euphrates) rivers: The first city-states. The earliest writing. The first songs and poems (including the Epic of Gilgamesh). The first glass-making. The earliest mathematical systems. The first archives and libraries … Mesopotamia was the home of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria. Mesopotamian influence stretched east into Persia and central Asia, north into Anatolia, west into the Levant and Egypt, and south into Arabia. When ancient kings needed to correspond with one another, they used the predominant language of Mesopotamia, of course, a Semitic language […]
