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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