今天的伊拉克大体相当于两河之间的古美索不达米亚文化区，这里被学者看作西方文明的摇篮。这里是《圣经》中伊甸园所在地，这里给西方世界贡献了第一个城市、书写体系、图书馆、法典、硬币、历法、二进制记数法和农业技术等等。现今伊拉克有一万多个考古点，既有被毁的城市遗 Today’s Iraq is roughly equivalent to the ancient Mesopotamia cultural area between the two rivers, where scholars are regarded as the cradle of Western civilization. Here is the site of the Garden of Eden in the Bible, where the first cities, writing systems, libraries, codes, coins, calendars, binary notation and agricultural techniques are all contributed to the Western world. Today, there are over 10,000 archeological sites in Iraq, both the ruined cities