A volume full of suggestions, updated with the latest archaeological research, with an exceptional photographic campaign. An extraordinary artistic itinerary that allows the reader to follow the development of one of the greatest intellectual and artistic adventures of human civilization. Tracing a profile of the art expressed by the Mesopotamian civilization, the culture that developed in the "Land between the two rivers", Tigris and Euphrates, is both an arduous and necessary undertaking. Difficult because an entire library has been dedicated to the subject since the early nineteenth-century archaeological excavations; necessary because the most recent archaeological finds, new discoveries and the deepening of knowledge in the sector require continuous clarifications that shed new light on a rapidly evolving whole, making the overall picture more detailed. And this is all the more true when one examines the successive cultural stratifications that occurred in Mesopotamia, taking into account the continuity of settlement that occurred over the millennia in this land. To the three main sections that made up the original edition of this volume - that of antiquity that we can define as "classical" of royal Mesopotamia with the great and celebrated empires, followed by the era of Hellenism, a prelude to the Parthian and Sassanid age and finally, from the Islamic season, generally unspoken and neglected - today a contribution is added which accounts for the recent archaeological discoveries regarding the pre-Islamic period. The result is an all-round cross-section of the role of processing center and diffuser of culture that Iraq has had over the millennia.