Uruk: The First Cities
The Ancients
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Oeruk Style Architecture - Cone Mosaic
The amount of time and effort put into constructing a mud brick temple like that, thousands of years before the rise of Rome or something like that is absolutely fascinating. Tens of thousands of these clay cones used to create mosaic patterns across this vast building. This required hundreds and hundreds of workers and of course in order to manage those workers and feed them and organise them, they developed writing.
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