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When the Sumerians reached Iraq’s southern coast for the first time around 5500 BCE, the last of the Wooly Mammoths were fighting for their survival on the other side of the world. They had made Wrangel Island their home and fought to endure, just as the Sumerians were sowing the seeds of the first civilization…
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For the following hundred and fifty years, the Guti ruled Mesopotamia in misery; it can be called a dark age. There is little written record or art from this time, and the ones found are unsophisticated. The Guti showed little concern for maintaining agriculture, written records, or public safety.
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One man would soon lead them to outright rebellion against Sumerian Empire. He would go down history as Sargon, which in Akkadian means “one true king”. He would usher in the twilight of the Sumerian age.
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Another Sumerian city, Ur gradually replaced Uruk as the center of Mesopotamia in the first centuries of the next millennium. It would flourish into realms of untold wealth pushing the boundaries of what humanity thought was possible.
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In the clay-bricked alleys of ancient Mesopotamia, a city of beer, bureaucracy, and myth gave the world its first written word- and its first great story.
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In the beginning there was a great flood. Eridu was not built on conquest but on survival. After the flood, humans reshaped the desert with canals and clay, turning scarcity into storage, and floodplains into farms. It was here, in southern Mesopotamia, that the idea of civilization first took root.
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The vast floodplain of Tigris and Euphrates is simply known as Iraq or Bilad al-Rafidyan in Arabic meaning the land of the two rivers. We know the land and people of the ancient time more commonly by Greek name, Mesopotamia; Mesos meaning between and Potamus meaning river. For thousands of years, the two great rivers…
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For a brief window in time, Nepal didn’t just host the global counterculture- it shaped its myth. Kathmandu became a meeting point between ancient ritual and Western rebellion, between spiritual tradition and psychedelic experimentation. It wasn’t always harmonious, but it was undeniably transformative. Kathmandu offered something profoundly different- space to breathe, reflect, and heal.
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ओजिमान्डियसको मरुभूमिमा ट्रुमन र नेपोलियनले- एकअर्काको छायाँ मात्र देखे साथमा थिए- हराइसकेका सपना बचेको थियो- शून्यको एक सानो आवाज, “उनीहरूलाई रोटी छैन? केक बाँडिदिउँ?” मरी एन्तोनेटले झ्यालबाट हेर्दै भन्दै थपिन, “राजनीति मिठो भ्रम हो।”
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