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Just visit historyhit.com slash subscribe. Over 5,000 years ago, in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, one of the

greatest technological leaps in human history occurred.

One created with neither stone nor gold, but with clay.

This is Cuneiform, the first ever writing system known to archaeology that would spread across

Mesopotamia and beyond. A writing system preserved today on thousands of fascinating tablets

that continue to reveal more and more

secrets about these ancient civilizations.

From simple pictograms used to count jars of beer in ancient Sumer to the complex wedges

that told the story of the Great Flood long before the Bible, Cuneiform became the script

of civilizations like the

Babylonians, the Assyrians and the Persians. Today we're joined by Friend of the podcast,

the One, the Only, the legend, Dr Irving Finkel, Senior Assistant Keeper at the British Museum

and one of the world's leading experts on Cuneer Form.

Irving, it is such a pleasure to have you on the show.

Delighted to be here. It's been too long.

Yes, it's been much too long.

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