The Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers
Posted by Doug Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:34:00 GMT
This was an excellent blog by raelity bytes. I too have often thought about the Garden of Eden while listening to the news lately.If you’ve turned on your television set or opened your daily newspaper over the past days, you’ve no doubt come to recognize the region currently under an attack of “Shock and Awe” at a glance. Detailed colourful maps, swirling three-dimensional fly-throughs, satellite photographs, and live video are shoved in your face at an alarming clip. And these are peppered with icons representing strikes, missiles, bombs, planes, ships, troops, refineries, oil fields, and labels designating points of interest, borders, regions, cities, and rivers. Yet beneath the audio-visual din, I find my eyes and ears drawn to mention of two particular points of orientation: the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Once, according to my old school books, the “cradle of civilization,” Mesopotamia (meaning “between the rivers”) sits quietly and unassumingly in the background. A Google for Mesopotamia turned up this lovely resource put together by The British Museum. One wonders what a Google fortigrisandeuphrateswill turn up in the days and years to come.
