![]() ![]() ![]() That the pillar was hacked out of the ground and lost beneath the sands for millennia before finally making its way to the storage rooms of the British Museum suggests rather the opposite. Among other details, it explained the origin of the line it demarcated: that it was drawn by the father of all the gods, at the very beginning of time. The pillar, which was placed on the border between the cities, gave only one side of the dispute. For a century and a half, these fields changed hands, most often violently. ![]() It tells of an argument between two cities over a stretch of Mesopotamian barley fields called the “edge of the plain”-now part of the deserts of Iraq. The oldest written story of a border dates back to 2,400 BC, carved in cuneiform into a half-meter-tall pillar of crystalline limestone. ![]()
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