College of Education for the Humanities, Wasit University discussed a master dissertation on the methods of sculpture in ancient Iraq during the third millennium BC by the postgraduate student, Mr. Mu'ayyad Fazaa Salman.

The dissertation aimed at investigating the artistic styles that characterized ancient Iraqi sculpture during that formative period by examining the manifestations of symbolic, abstract, expressionist, surrealist and realistic styles and revealing their intellectual dimensions as a reflection of Iraqi human interactions.

The dissertation concluded that these artistic styles were not separate or chronologically sequential but rather intertwined within the structure of the sculptural work, reflecting the richness of ancient Iraqi thought, these styles constituted a fundamental reference that influenced subsequent arts in ancient Iraq and even neighboring civilizations.

The dissertation emphasized that the third millennium BC was not merely a transitional period, but rather a fundamental foundation upon which the development of art in the ancient Near East was based.