—"Mesopotamia."
That referred to the middle and lower reaches of the region between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River.
"Mesopotamia" meant "the land between two rivers." It was the name the ancient Greeks gave to the region between the two rivers, which were the Euphrates River and the Tigris River.
This was where the Sumerians, the people who settled in the region between the two rivers, had lived throughout history.
The Sumerians established the Sumerian Civilization, the earliest civilization in all of Mesopotamia and also the earliest known civilization in the world.
In other words, Sumer was the origin of human history, while the Sumerian Civilization was the beginning of Mesopotamian civilization. It would not be an exaggeration to call it one of the marks confirming humanity's existence on earth.
Looking back through history, the only civilization that existed at the same time was the Ancient Egyptian Civilization. Both were practically the starting points of human civilization.
And 2600 BC was precisely the era of Sumer's Early Dynastic period.
This era was the heyday of the slave-owning city-states in Sumer. City-states stood everywhere, and Mesopotamian mythology and humanity's oldest heroic epics were even born during this period.
In other words, humanity's oldest heroes were born in this era, which had already formed its own mythology. It was one of the synonyms for the Age of Gods.
"The decline of mystery began after the Common Era began, but if we trace it back to its roots, we might have to go all the way back to this era."
Da Vinci said this.
"This was the era when humanity announced its farewell to the gods. From this era onward, the gods gradually began to leave this world, ceasing to remain active on earth. By around one thousand years into the Common