The Tigris and Euphrates rivers encompass a area as soon as referred to as Mesopotamia, the "cradle" of historic civilizations that incorporated Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria. This interesting ebook follows either rivers from the place they start in Turkey, shuttle down via northern Syria and Iraq, and sign up for to shape the Shatt al Arab earlier than emptying into the Persian Gulf.
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