On 19 March 2003 between the U.S. military in Iraq. Begins, hidden by the noise of conflict, a vast enterprise of destroying the remnants of Sumer, the first known civilization. Sites kingdom later are not spared: in Babylon, coalition troops and armored bivouaquent destroying floors years old in 2600.

The culmination of the devastation is reached with the ransacking of the National Museum in Baghdad, April 11, and the disappearance of priceless témignages past, thousands of cuneiform tablets have not yet been deciphered, and unique pieces of Sumer of fourth and third millennium BC

One of the cities of the original kingdom, discovered in 2001 near the present Nassiriyah by archaeologists of the Department of antiqités Iraqi disappeared from any registry. It is Uruad.

Uruad is a novel.