The First Written Stories: Sumerian Tablets, Flood Myths & The Birth of Writing

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Three thousand years before the Bible, a flood story was pressed into clay in Mesopotamia. From Uruk’s ledgers to the Epic of Gilgamesh, these tablets hold humanity’s first voices. Explore the birth of writing, flood myths, and more.

In this episode of Echoes of Time:
How writing began in ancient Mesopotamia
The Kesh Temple Hymn and Instructions of Šuruppak
The Flood Story in the Eridu Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh
Archaeological flood layers around 3000 BCE
The mysterious “handbag” symbol and its true meaning

Are these tablets history, myth, or something in between? Tell us what YOU think in the comments.