It's the entrance on History Hit.

I'm Tristan Hughes, your host and in today's podcast, what I'm recording this intro out

on location.

We are currently at Dunn-Telve-Brock, at Glenelg in Scotland, in Western Scotland, just south

of Skye.

We are talking all about prehistoric Scotland for a new series for History Hit.

We are covering the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age with the climax of it being

these rocks.

These incredible ancient Iron Age towers, the remains of which you can see all across

the Scottish mainland, not largely the northern part of the Scottish mainland, but also

surrounding islands too.

It's an incredible story.

We are telling it for History Hit.

It's been a great shoot so far and we still got a far way to go.

Stay tuned for that being released in due course and of course a couple of podcasts

around prehistoric Scotland too.

Now for today's episode, something completely different because we are going to Ancient Iraq

to the Ancient Middle East, Mesopotamia thousands of years ago to talk about a, I think it's

fair to say, a lesser known ancient civilization, but one which is shrouded in quite a loss of

mystery I think it's fair to say.

The Sumerians.

The Sumerians these people, we got names such as Ur, Uruk, the great Ziggurativer, the

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