S8 Ep263: PREVIEW: MOUDHY AL-RASHID ON THE ANCIENT PRINTING PRESS OF UR Colleague Moudhy Al-Rashid. Author Moudhy Al-Rashid discusses her book Between Two Rivers, describing how ancient Mesopotamians used stamped bricks as an early "printing press." At the Great Zi
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
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1932 LION GATE BABYLON
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| 0:30.9 | This is Job Bachelor. |
| 0:32.4 | Conversation with the author, Moody Al-Rashid, her new book, |
| 0:36.3 | Between Two Rivers, The Story of Mesopotamia, |
| 0:39.1 | the ancient cities of Mesopotamia. And here, Moody addresses Ur and the discovery that the |
| 0:47.2 | bricks that built the ziggurates and the walls were messages from 2000, 2,000, 3,000 years before the building of the wall. |
| 0:57.3 | They were also messages from the men and women who built the wall in the cigarette. |
| 1:02.9 | Stamped messages. |
| 1:05.5 | As if every element of building was important to leave behind, we were here. Here's the ziggaret of o'er. These are |
| 1:15.7 | ancient towns, dating to 4,000, 5,000 years ago. Much more of this coming up later in the month. |
| 1:26.4 | Mudia al-Rashid, between two rivers. |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, great question. |
| 1:31.0 | So some bricks get stamped with an inscription, |
| 1:33.8 | and we sort of in the field call it the earliest printing press |
| 1:37.4 | because it's essentially a stamp, |
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