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Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)

Literature and History

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The Tower of Babel's Story

The persians took babylon and with it all of mesopotamia. Etemenanke still stood, and the old babylonian god mardok was still revered long into the persian period. It's an even stranger story when you learn that the 90 meter zigarot called a temenanki didn't actually come down when the persians took over babylon. The next couple of episodes are going to take us deep inside the consciousness of the once forgotten world of Mesopotamia. And we are going to explore some of their stories.

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