Mesopotamia: The Truth: what was really happening in the 'cradle of civilisation'

Ancient Mesopotamia... perhaps the definitive cradle of civilisation. Who discovered its various remains? What did they find? And what does the archaeological and textual evidence tell us about the elements of modern living that were introduced for the first time... as much as 5000 years ago?

Several hundred years ago many people believed that Old Testament cities such as Ur, Erech and Nineveh were simply fabrications. But then from the middle of the nineteenth century a succession of intrep...