Mesopotamia

:For other uses see Mesopotamia (disambiguation).

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Mesopotamia (Greek: ???????????, translated from Old Persian Miyanrudan "the fertile cresent"; Aramaic name being Beth-Nahrain "House of Two Rivers") is a region of Southwest Asia. Strictly speaking, it is the alluvial plain lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, composing parts of Iraq and Syria. More commonly, the term includes these river plains in totality as well as the surrounding lowland territories bounded by the Arabian Desert to the west and south, the Persian Gulf to the southeast, the Zagros Mountains to the east and the Caucasus mountains to the north. Mesopotamia is famous for the site of some of the oldest civilizations in the world.

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Greek - Old Persian - Aramaic - Southwest Asia - Alluvial plain - Tigris - Euphrates - Iraq - Syria - Arabian Desert - Persian Gulf - Zagros Mountains - Caucasus

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Writings from Mesopotamia (Uruk, modern Warka) are among the earliest known in the world, giving Mesopotamia a reputation of being the "Cradle of Civilization". The age of Sumerian writing is about on a par with Egyptian hieroglyphs, and some yet older inscriptions are known, probably ranking as proto-writing (Old European script, Naqada http://www.touregypt.net/ebph5.htm.)

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Uruk - Cradle of Civilization - Egyptian hieroglyphs - Old European script - Naqada

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