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Some amazing facts about Iraq worth reading!
- The ‘Mesopotamia’ – the cradle of civilization, was in Iraq. this was the region between Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
- Mesopotamia mean the land between the rivers.
- Iraq has been home to continuous successive civilizations since the 6th millennium BC.
- Iraq was home to the earliest known civilization, the Sumerian civilization, which arose in the fertile Tigris-Euphrates river valley of southern Iraq.
- The world’s first writing system and recorded history itself were born in Iraq during the late 4th Millennium BC.
- During 620- 539 BC Iraq was the centre of world power. This happened while Iraq was under the final Babylonian empire.
- Iraq is the 58th-largest country in the world.
- Iraqi cuisine has a long history going back some 10,000 years.
- The Tower of Babel was in Iraq.
- The garden of Eden was in Iraq.
