6 Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia (Sumer)

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Tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia - now present-day Iraq

Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers’) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today’s Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.

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