And welcome to the rest of history. Now you may be wondering why I welcomed you in Serbian.

And the answer, Tom, is that we have reached the Balkan Republic in a survey of the countries

that have qualified for this year's World Cup in Qatar. You chose to do Serbia. You were

very keen to do it. Yeah, I was. I would have liked to have done it, but you chose to

do it. What would you have chosen to do? Oh, something involving 20th century coos.

I might have chosen the Black Hand, but you know what, Tom, I'd probably have chosen

the Battle of Kosovo Poly. Okay. The field of the Blackbirds. That's probably what I've

chosen. Okay. You're looking deflated when me saying that. Not at all, not at all.

So we obviously before recording episodes, we have discussed differently what we're going

to do. Yeah. So I think I ended up choosing Stefan Dushan, the great 14th century Serbian

emperor, which is what you may be expecting me to do. That is what I'm expecting to do.

I'm not going to. Oh, no. I was looking forward to that. No, I was really looking forward

to it. I've got a totally new one. And the thing that will really excite you about this

is that it's prehistory of Christ. You love a bit of prehistory, don't you? It's not

science. It's prehistory. I believe you're a little based lighting up with joy, but

dominate. I want that. This is actually a brilliant, I think. And I'd be interested to see

whether you agree. Okay. Because basically, where would you say the first script, the first

written language originated? You might say Samaria, you might say Mesopotamia, you might say

Nish or Novisad, some like that in Serbia. You'd be right. Or would you? Because there is

a possibility that the birthplace of written scripts was Serbia. And then Serbia was the home

of one of the original great civilizations. Did you know that? No, I've never heard that

claim made before. At place of urban settlements, the first place to develop copper smelting,

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