During the war, Jawad Bashara, Iraqi writer exiled in France under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, decides to return to his country to rescue the treasures of Mesopotamia targeted and destroyed by Isis. Along with a team of archaeologists from all over the world, he embarks on a hazardous quest for our origins. Sumer, Babylon, the epic of Gilgamesh and the legendary Tower of Babel. today, all these names still resonate. They embody Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers - Tigris and Euphrates. It is in this land that our civilisation was born and where humanity organised itself into a society of tens of thousands of people, invented writing and developed agriculture and architecture. What does this history really tell us? Why has a terrorist group with worldwide influence decided, among other crimes, to erase its traces forever? This is what Mesopotamia 3D. The Future of our Origins reveals.
Mesopotamia 3D was broadcast on SBS ONE at Sunday 19 June 2022, 10:29.