According to scientists, the most ancient is the tradition of New Year celebrations in ancient Mesopotamia.

In Mesopotamia, all agricultural work began in late March, after the water was coming into the Tigris and Euphrates. The beginning of the season was associated with climatic victory light god, Marduk over the forces of destruction and death. Within 12 days of parades, carnivals, masquerades was marked by this event. Forbidden to work at this time, to punish, to administer the courts. The cuneiform writing on clay tablets from one tells us that those were the days "of unbridled freedom, when the whole world order was placed upside down. Slave turned to master"

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