
Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)
Literature and History
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Cune Form on Clay Tablets
The bronze age collapse was the catalist to the slow disintegration of mesopotamian culture. Cunea form on clay tablets is a great choice if you want to bury something in a hot climate for four thousand years and have it understood by future generations. Phonetic writing on organic materials, on the other hand, required no scribal schools or years of specialized training. The rulers of assyria and babylon began to understand that their culture's ancient literary and theological history was under threat.
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