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Uruk: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Great City | Sleep Story
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Tonight, travel back more than six thousand years to the plains of ancient Mesopotamia, where a settlement beside the rivers slowly became something the human world had scarcely seen before: a true city.
This is the story of Uruk — one of the earliest and greatest urban centers in history.
Follow its long transformation from fields, canals, mud-brick houses, and small farming communities into a vast city of temples, craftsmen, administrators, merchants, and thousands of strangers learning to live together. Discover how the demands of…
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