The wheel was invented here. So was writing. So was mathematics, the first
city, and the first law code ever pressed into clay. Seven thousand years
of human civilization began on a flat alluvial plain between two rivers —
and almost every empire on Earth has tried to claim it, conquer it, or
erase it. This is Iraq.
Most viewers know only the war and the desert. They don't know that Iraq
contains mountain valleys greener than Switzerland, the largest wetland
in the Middle East, a coral reef in the Persian Gulf, and the oldest
continuously inhabited city on Earth — a place where one family has lived
on the same hill for seven thousand years.
In this documentary, discover the Mesopotamian Marshes that Saddam Hussein
drained and the marsh people who refused to leave, the Kurdish mountains
where Persian leopards still roam, the Ziggurat of Ur where Abraham was
born, and the largest cemetery on the planet where six million souls rest
beside the Shrine of Imam Ali.
Take a breath. Stay a while. The rivers are still flowing.
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Image Credits:
"Mudhif Reception Hall" by David Stanley
Licensed under CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Source: Wikimedia Commons
"Roofing of reed Mudhif - guesthouse, Southern marshlands, Iraq" by Hassan Al-Jarrah
Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Source: Wikimedia Commons
"Sumerian Mudhif-guesthouse, Southern Eastern marshes, Iraq" by Hassan Al-Jarrah
Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Source: Wikimedia Commons
"Iraqi mudhif interior" by Hassan Janali, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Public Domain
Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
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