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The area known as MesopotamiaGreek for "land between the rivers"encompasses the territory in and around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their tributaries. The rivers stretch some 1,700 miles to the southeast, from their headwaters in Turkey to their common mouth on the Persian Gulf. The region is bounded to the north and east by the Taurus and Zagros mountains, and to the west by the great Syrian Desert, and roughly corresponds with modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and southeastern Turkey. In antiquity, the world's earliest urban centers develop in Sumer and Akkad, or Babylonia to the south, and later in Assyria to the north.
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Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art. "Geography of Mesopotamia". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/m_wam/hd_m_wam.htm (October 2002)
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