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Flooding was common along the Tigris andEuphrates

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Mesopotamia was located in modern

day Iraq

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Mesopotamia is the cradle ofcivilization

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The Center of every city-state was the

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Located at

the top of theziggurat wasthe templeFrom here the

priest wouldcall everyonein the city tomorning

prayers

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Biblical scholars

have wondered if

this ziggurat

could be the

Tower of Babel

read about in theOld Testament of

the Christian

Bible.

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This is a representation of the inside of a

ziggurat

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This is all that isleft of the famedgate of Ishtar

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!ome modern architecture models after the ancientziggurats

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Clothing and hair styles of ancient

Mesopotamians

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"re these aliens or ancientMesopotamians#

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Now these have to be

aliens!

$rong again%they are statuesof the ancient

ones

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!ome

thingsneverchange

&erecomethe

'ride "culturalevent

even

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$herehave youseen thismodernsym'olfrom the

ancientland of!umer#

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Everywhere the glint ofgold#

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The !tandard of )r

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" close

up fromthe!tandard

of )r%commonly called

*the 'igman+ 'ymodern

artists

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" e,ample of cuneiform "re you ready