Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia
Also called:	Sumer, Iraq
Type:	Region
Location:	Asia
First appearance:	Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"]
Appearances:	see list

The area known at various times in history as Sumer, Mesopotamia and Iraq (AUDIO: Out of the Deep ^[+]Loading...["Out of the Deep (audio story)"]) was a region on Earth in Asia. It was the place where human civilisation began, and was home to the city-states of Uruk and Kish. One part of Mesopotamia was called Lower Mesopotamia, where the city-state Ur was situated. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys ^[+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"], AUDIO: The Boundless Sea ^[+]Loading...["The Boundless Sea (audio story)"])

History

Early history

In around 5000 CE, one of Earth's first cities Eridu was founded. (AUDIO: Out of the Deep ^[+]Loading...["Out of the Deep (audio story)"])

The Seventh Doctor and Ace visited the region in 2700 BC. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys ^[+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"])

In the 11th century BCE, the Surene tribe of Lower Mesopotamia buried women alive with their dead husbands. (AUDIO: The Boundless Sea ^[+]Loading...["The Boundless Sea (audio story)"])

The Thirteenth Doctor and her friends took part in the very first New Year's Eve celebrations in Mesopotamia. This region of Mesopotamia would later become Iraq. (TV: Resolution ^[+]Loading...["Resolution (TV story)"])

Mesopotamia was later home to the city-state of Babylon, which was visited by Bernice Summerfield. (PROSE: Walking to Babylon ^[+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (novel)"])

First millennium CE

In the 1st century, the multicultural city of Byzantium was home to Mesopotamians. (PROSE: Byzantium! ^[+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"])

Second millenium CE

In the 1850s, the First Doctor and Steven Taylor visited the remnants of Eridu. (AUDIO: Out of the Deep ^[+]Loading...["Out of the Deep (audio story)"])

River Song visited Mesopotamia in 1924 to investigate a Surene tomb in the vicinity of Ur. (AUDIO: The Boundless Sea ^[+]Loading...["The Boundless Sea (audio story)"])

References

The Eleventh Doctor offered to take Clara Oswald to Mesopotamia. (TV: The Day of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])