Iraq is known as the “Cradle of Civilization”. The earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq), emerging during the sixth and fifth millennium BC. It is also one of the first civilizations in the world with the founding of Sumerian cities.
It was here, in the late 4th millennium BC, that the world’s first writing system and recorded history itself were born. The Sumerians were also the first to harness the wheel and create City States, and whose writings record the first evidence of Mathematics, Astronomy, Astrology, Written Law, Medicine and Organized religion.