الاسس البنائية في حضارة بلاد الرافدين

Abstract

Mesopotamia was characterized by many cultural characteristics that made it take precedence among the other of the original civilizations, including the Egyptian civilization, These cultural aspects varied between the arts, architecture, writing, literature and other arts that expressed the ideas and beliefs of the people of Mesopotamia. Architecture is one of the most important manifestations of civilization in Mesopotamia, as left us the old Iraqi architecture buildings in various forms and in the function and in building materials. And the foundations of buildings  being  the most important structural elements on which the building is based and depends on stability and strength on the strength and rigidity of these foundations, So we see the interest of the ancient Iraqis in this element Architecture, However, this element has not been studied in detail, and has not been review to the special features and the general and associated, and most of the previous studies were focused on the presentation of the foundations and construction material without review any other details.

     As the foundations of the importance of the buildings of archeology was chosen the subject of structural foundations in the civilization of Mesopotamia, as the researcher touched on what these foundations in terms of naming and related labels, and their relationship to religion and society and magic and documentation and many other things, the researcher relied on the study of most Cuneiform writings Which dealt with the issue of the foundations and examples that he talked about.