
Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)
Literature and History
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The Origins of Writing
The earliest written documents that we have are from the two thousand b c e, and they're from the land of sumer. The origins of writing were practical rather than artistic. Writing was a technology that became necessary when larger groups began congregating. In the urak tablets, you can see writing being born.
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