Arabic, of course, is the primary language of Iraq, but because knowledge about it is so widespread, only features of it peculiar to Iraq are considered here. Most attention is devoted to Aramaic, whi
From a November 1998 conference in Manchester, England, 11 studies investigate some of the most significant individual sites representing the Uruk culture that dominated South Mesopotamia during the l
The roots of our modern world lie in the civilization of Mesopotamia, which saw the development of the first urban society and the invention of writing. The cuneiform texts reveal the technological an
