Mesopotamia was, first, a territory: the great plain irrigated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, with their northern valleys, their southern marshes and their stone plateau. A geographical scenario, not a people or a nation. Over almost four millennia, this scenario was inhabited, transformed and disputed by radically different cultures: the Neolithic villages of Hassuna, Samarra and Halaf; the pre-urban world of Ubaud; the cities - the Sumerian state; the acadiums, which built the first empire of history; the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Kasites, the Aramaic, the Chaldeans. Seventeen different cultural periods, each with its language, its gods, its ways of organizing power and interpreting the world.

What they shared was the stage: the same soil, the same heat, the same capricious rivers, the same tension between the stone-free plain and the rich mountains around it. That geographical tension —that need for exchange, for ingenuity, for permanent negotiation with a difficult environment— is perhaps the most constant thread of all mesopotamic history.

Por eso, cuando en Myrodia Khartes hablamos de ‘las culturas de Mesopotamia’, hablamos de capas. Capas que se superponen, que dialogan, que a veces se absorben unas a otras y a veces conviven en tensión dentro del mismo espacio.

Esta serie de artículos es un intento de mirar esas capas a través de ventanas específicas, allí donde la evidencia histórica y la profundidad de sus mitos nos permiten encender una luz. No buscaremos una cronología plana e imposible; en su lugar, recorreremos este territorio a través de sus grandes hitos y la intimidad de sus rituales desde la perspectiva olfativa.

1. Neolithic Ubaid · c. 6500-3800 BCHassuna, Samarra, Halaf and Ubaud — the roots
2. Uruk period · c. 4100-2900 BCProto-Sumerian — the first cities andJemdet Nasr and Early Dynamic· c. 3100-2334 BCSummeries and acadiums in coexistence.
3. Akitu: The Babylonian New Year reordering the cosmos
4. Mīs Pī: The Ritual of the Boca de los Dioses Washing
5. Swear & Cleaning of Sin

The progress and publication of historical stages are organized according to the chronology and documented progress of the research, with weekly updates.

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