Cuneiform script
Iraq is home to the world’s first writing system: cuneiform script which means “wedge shaped.” This is because the marks wedge shaped and the writing was done on clay tablets. Between 500,000 and two million cuneiform tablets have been discovered in modern times, but less than 100,000 have been read or published.
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Olympic Games
Did you know Abdul Wahid Aziz is the only person in the history of the country to win an Olympic medal? While Iraq has participated in the Olympics since 1948, but has only won one bronze medal thanks to Abdul. He took the medal at the 1960 summer Olympic Games for weightlifting.
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