Ancient Mesopotamia: everything you wanted to know

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To join us as we serve up stories of some remarkable delicacies from the past, search History's Greatest Dishes and follow the feed wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine. Do you know your Sumerians from your Babylonians? and Eurykadians, while all of these civilizations formed part of the story of ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where over the course of several millennia city-states formed, writing flourished, the wheel may have been invented, mathematics was practised, and dogs were God's pets. and warriors.

In today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, Moody al-Rashid, the author of Between Two Rivers, answers your questions on the ancient region, in conversation with David Musgrove. Right, today we are tackling a very big subject, ancient Mesopotamia, which is big in terms of time and space. So the first thing we need to do, the obvious Google search query is, What and where was ancient Mesopotamia? So, Moody, can you enlighten us about that, please?

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