The Department of Geography holds a panel discussion on (characteristics of the climate of Iraq during the Quaternary time)

     The Department of Geography at the College of Arts at the University of Kufa held a panel discussion for Professor Dr. (Falah Hassan Shannon), entitled (Characteristics of the Climate of Iraq during the Quaternary Time), in which the lecturer in the Department of Geography reviewed in this episode the characteristics of the climate of Iraq in the fourth time, which consists of Two eras are the Pleistocene era (1.6 million years) and it is called the ice age, in which ice covered large areas of the earth’s surface, and rain increased in the Middle East region, including Iraq, and in it the ancient man appeared, and the Holocene era (11) thousand years and it is called the modern or the period of warmth , which is the most recent and extended to the present time, warmth prevailed and man reached the highest levels in it, and human civilizations emerged, including the civilizations of Iraq.

Shannon pointed out that the geographical and historical evidence indicates that no major changes have occurred in the climate of Iraq, since man settled the Iraqi sedimentary plain between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. The researcher added that the presence of a large number of water valleys in the western plateau of Iraq, which end in depressions such as Lake Al-Razzaza and the Bahr Al-Najaf depression, as well as in the Euphrates River, hundreds of kilometers long; Clear evidence that the climate of Iraq went through more humid and rainy periods than the present time, and the climate of Iraq did not change significantly during the time of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Sassanids, except for a slight increase in temperature and a decrease in humidity.