Irakian civilization is 5000 years old. I'm sure US soldiers did not managed to sack all of your past. There's plenty of deeply buried light, such as Ibn Al-Haytham (Basora, 11c AC), almost totally forgotten (but by Newton), never published, never studied. The really good news in 2018 is that whole bunch of Irakian scientists with an English high-level, devoured by curiosity.