Map of Mesopotamia

The stories of Creation, Flood, Tower of Babel and Ur of the Chaldees were all located in Mesopotamia. There were also accounts of invasions of the Holy Land by the Assyrians and Babylonians and of how the people of Judah were carried off into exile to Mesopotamia. Educated people could also read about Mesopotamia from the writings of . classical Greek and Roman authors . such as Herodotus ... ................
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