Mesopotamia - Reflexions

Mesopotamia

This word means “the land between the rivers” (from the Greek, meso-, meaning “between”, “in the middle”, and potamos, “river”). Mesopotamia is a historical region of the Middle East located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; it corresponds roughly to present-day Iraq. In Antiquity the capital of the region was the city of Babylon, and it was the home of the Sumerian-Akkadian civilization for more than 3000 years. This civilization developed one of the most ancient systems of writing known to history: cuneiform writing. In the state of scholarly knowledge at the present time, it is difficult to know if Mesopotamian civilization was the first to invent writing, or if the Egyptians were first.