The Greatest Cities of Ancient Mesopotamia : The History of Babylon, Nineveh, Ur, Uruk, Persepolis, Hattusa, and Assur

In southern Iraq, a crushing silence hangs over the dunes. For nearly 5,000 years, the sands of the Iraqi desert have held the remains of the oldest known civilization: the Sumerians. When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they wer