Il était une fois la Mésopotamie
Jean-Claude Lubtchansky
1998 - 52 min - Beta digital - Couleur - France

In Syria and in Iraq, between the Tiger and Euphratus, a country of silence. Nothing pushes someone to search, to dig. Nothing unless strange bricks with abstract signs like nails.
Desert sands buried the memory of an antique and brilliant civilisation, born 5,000 years ago and dead at the beginning of our era.
Mesopotamia was no more than an old biblical legend and some narrations that arrived to us through the old Latin and Greek historians. Treasures which was discovered were spread into museums, and the desert sands covered again cities resuscitated by the first "diggers".
Since then, ruins have spoken : Khorsabad, Assur, Babylone emerged from the sands, letters delivered their messages of clay revealing the dawn of the History.