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Genre
Documentary
Copyright
1998
Length
52 minutes
Producer(s)
Jean-Pierre Gibrat, Trans Europe Film
Co-producer(s)
Gallimard, Arte, La Cinquième, Ministère des affaires étrangères, Musée du Louvre
Selections / Awards
Audience Award, International Archaeological Film Festival of Rovereto, Italy, 1999
The Mesopotamian civilization, born on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates over 5,000 years ago, invented writing, science, and literature. Its cities were buried beneath the sand, then rediscovered in the 19th century. This documentary, structured like an adventure film, plunges viewers among the explorers, epigraphists, and Assyriologists who first revealed Mesopotamian archaeology to the modern world.