History textbooks say that the two river basins thousands of years ago were the gathering places of ancient civilizations. Is it true?/You don't say. /You don't say.
Really. These two rivers refer to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mesopotamian civilization, one of the earliest civilizations in the world, originated here. It just disappears with the change of environment and the flow of population. Not all civilizations, like our nation, have the right time, the right place and the right people, and continue to this day. It may take years for archaeologists to explain a word in code of hammurabi, but sometimes it only takes a few minutes to understand Oracle Bone Inscriptions.