Sumer, Babylon, the epic of Gilgamesh, the legendary Tower of Babel: all these names embody Mesopotamia. It is in this plain, also known as the "fertile crescent", where Iraq is today, that our civilization was born. There, humanity organized itself into a society of several tens of thousands of people, invented writing and gave agriculture and architecture an unprecedented development. What does this story tell, that a terrorist group decided to want to erase its trace for good? In 2014, Daech wiped the main archaeological sites of the North off the map. The images of the exactions went around the world and convinced Jawad Bashara, an Iraqi writer and journalist exiled in France under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, to return to his country to act.