Five thousand years ago, in the V-shaped land bordered by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the southern part of that war-torn place we now call Iraq, there lived a people called the Sumerians. They worshipped many Gods and Goddesses, but the most powerful and cherished of them all, was their Goddess Inanna. For even back then, that land was a hot, arid landscape, with no trees, no stone, no minerals- seemingly a place doomed to poverty.

Using an ingenious system of irrigation, they transformed their harsh land into a prosperous Garden of Eden. Though they had their wars, they had more peace and there was enough stability in the Kingdom to allow them to flourish brilliantly. They developed the first system of writing and built the first urban centres. Sumer became