Uruk: The First Cities
The Ancients
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The Origin of the Uruk Culture in Mesopotamia
From around 3500 BC, we start to see the material culture of southern Iraq. The so-called Uruk culture with its monumental buildings and clay cones. We find some of that at sites in the north of Mesopotamia where it clearly had not originated. This also emerges in the field of writing too. You've got to wait perhaps a thousand years before we start to be able to read cuneiform script.
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