Concerned about the risk to Iraq's cultural treasures?

Check out the H-Museum's new Current Focus: Iraq - The cradle of civilisation at risk.

Those of you who have studied the world civilisations know that the area surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates is often known as a cradle of civilisation. Archaeological sites include the Biblical cities of Ninevah and Ur, Uruk, the setting of the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as the capitals of the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian empires. Baghdad and surrounding areas were also very important in the flowering of Jewish and Islamic culture which took place during the Middle Ages.