Babel
"As the written word began speaking, stones fell silent... trees became mute, and other animals, dumb." (1)
Consensus has it that history began at Ur, a city-state in ancient Sumer, nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia. It was there that the first kings issued, and had transcribed into written codes, the first civil laws approximately six thousand years ago. With this development, literacy quickly replaced oral traditions, while the…
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