For thousands of years Mesopotamia was home to hunters, fishers, and farmers, exploiting fertile soil, rivers, and abundant animals. By around 3200 B.C., the largest settlement in southern Mesopotamia, if not the world, was Uruk: a true city dominated by monumental mud-brick buildings decorated with mosaics of painted clay cones
Hieroglyphs – the picture writing of ancient Egypt, is the oldest writing system in the world. It predates the wedge-shaped cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia (Iraq) by about 50 to 100 years. Recently examples have been found that appear to date back to the middle of the fifth millennium BC. The
Ancient Egyptian faience is something completely different from European faience, andshould not be confused with it. European faience is a hard, brightly coloured, tin-glazed pottery first made in Faenze (hence its name) in Italy in late medieval times. It is also known as majolica. Egyptian Faience Egyptian faience (often referred