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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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