River+Civilizations

India, China, Mesopotamia and Egypt go here

We will look at Mesopotamia first.

Mesopotamia means "the land between the rivers" in Greek.

In the map below, the top river is the Tigris; the lower river is the Euphrates.



The story of Gilgamesh, the oldest recorded story, takes place around the city of Uruk, located in the lower right corner of the map on the Tigris River.

Archaeological Updates:

As of 2003, archaeologists may have found [|Gilgamesh's tomb].

And earlier this year, archaeologists in Egypt found [|Hatshepsut's remains].

Maybe some day archaeologists will crack the Harappan language, or make a new find that reveals more about that culture along the Indus River.