IRAQ: Where Civilization Began and Buried Itself | 4K Travel Documentary

The wheel was invented here. So was writing. So was mathematics, the first city, and the first law code ever pressed into clay. Seven thousand years of human civilization began on a flat alluvial plain between two rivers — and almost every empire on Earth has tried to claim it, conquer it, or erase it. This is Iraq. Most viewers know only the war and the desert. They don't know that Iraq contains mountain valleys greener than Switzerland, the largest wetland in the Middle East, a coral reef in the Persian Gulf, and the oldest continuously inhabited city on Earth — a place where one family has lived on the same hill for seven thousand years. In this documentary, discover the Mesopotamian Marshes that Saddam Hussein drained and the marsh people who refused to leave, the Kurdish mountains where Persian leopards still roam, the Ziggurat of Ur where Abraham was born, and the largest cemetery on the planet where six million souls rest beside the Shrine of Imam Ali. Take a breath. Stay a while. The rivers are still flowing. ▶ See More Middle East Documentaries: JORDAN:    • PATAGONIA: The Land Two Nations Almost Wen...   YEMEN:    • YEMEN: The Oldest Skyscrapers on Earth Are...   ▶ Subscribe:    / @whereonearth4k   #Iraq #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WhereOnEarth #MiddleEast #mesopotamia Image Credits: "Mudhif Reception Hall" by David Stanley Licensed under CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: Wikimedia Commons "Roofing of reed Mudhif - guesthouse, Southern marshlands, Iraq" by Hassan Al-Jarrah Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: Wikimedia Commons "Sumerian Mudhif-guesthouse, Southern Eastern marshes, Iraq" by Hassan Al-Jarrah Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: Wikimedia Commons "Iraqi mudhif interior" by Hassan Janali, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Public Domain Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library