The government also sponsored a series of excavations among the dusty mounds that litter the Mesopotamian plain.

No local flood on the Mesopotamian plain would cause that image to be part of the story.

Babylon was one of the many ancient city-states that dotted the Mesopotamian plain and waged war on each other for control of fertile agricultural land.

However, the homogeneity of the pottery across the southern Mesopotamian plain suggests intensive contacts and trade between settlements.

In Ur, it was the shrine of the moon god, Nanna, a 70-foot-high ziggurat towering over the Mesopotamian plain.

The reason was its abundant supply of water, whereas the great Mesopotamian plain on the western side had to depend on streams flowing into the Euphrates.

To the southeast, it is bounded by the ranges that separate it from the Orontes valley in Syria (region) and the Mesopotamian plain.

He chose to deploy his army at Solachon, controlling the various routes of the Mesopotamian plain, and especially access to the main local watering source, the Arzamon river.

His forces, led by Lusius Quietus, also captured Nisibis; its occupation was essential to securing all the major routes across the northern Mesopotamian plain.

The flooding the Mesopotamian plain began turning it into a sea of mud, flooded nullahs and mud islands.