Sumerians and the Birth of Writing
The Ancients
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The Great Death Pit in Mesopotamia
Within the cemetery of thousands of individuals, there were 16 graves he uncovered which were completely different in scale. They contained extraordinary material and so tell me a bit more about these 16 particular graves. What sorts of materials were uncovered, and what did they believe that they were associated with? So these are enormous pits in the ground, and sometimes fotof ten metres deepand at the bottom of the pit would be a stone tomb. And inside those stone buildings, what woolly took to be the primary burial, the king, or the queen, in his interpretation, was buried there.
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