Uruk: The First Cities
The Ancients
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The Origins of Writing in Oruk
Oruk in many ways is perhaps most famous because it is the place where as far as we can tell the earliest writing, or at least the origins of writing, begin. And so by 2800 BC, some 500 years perhaps after those first scratches were made in those clay tablets, we start to be able to read some of the Sumerian words of the local language. And that of course then starts to illuminate populations, individuals, names and famous people. Very, very interesting and I'm presuming that writing it will evolve, as an O-Dot will talk about in more detail later in this podcast episode.
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