Trésors de Mésopotamie : des archéologues face à Daech

At 63, Iraqi writer Jawad Bashara has spent more than half of his life in exile. When Islamic State troops decided to erase the Sumerian origins of our civilisation, he decided to go back to Iraq and take action. 

It’s in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago that what we call the first civilisation was born, where humans emerged from prehistory. The wheel, mathematics, the State, writing and globalisation all come from it.
Jawad retraces the road that made humans become part of history for us. Accompanied by archaeologists and geeks, he gives himself the mission of immortalising our common heritage.