
Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)
Literature and History
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Cuneiform Tablets - The Beginnings of Human Civilization
Two sheep were delivered to the temple on behalf of the goddess inana. She or her priests had some mutton. What at first might have seemed like an arcane and enigmatic fragment, perhaps bearing some kind of a cosmic secret, turns out to be a receipt. Just a smigeon of knowledge about ura's society tells us what it meant to them. We found that the beginnings of civilization were not the marble statues of greece, nor the wanderings of the ancient israelites,. but instead the buried tells of iroc.
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