Who Were the Sumerians? The Ancient Civilization of Ur Before Abraham | Ancient History

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Long before Abraham, Ur was already an ancient city, boasting a ziggurat, schools, laws, and trade with distant lands. The Sumerians wrote on clay tablets, brewed beer, organized entire cities, and told the story of a great flood centuries before Moses. Later, they vanished as a people, without a final, cataclysmic war. In this documentary, you will discover the Ur that Abraham saw, the strange Sumerian King List featuring reigns lasting tens of thousands of years, an honest comparison between the flood stories of Ziusudra and Gilgamesh and that of Noah, and the reasons why this civilization faded away. Finally, we ascend the Ziggurat of Ur as it stands today in southern Iraq. It is a journey through history, archaeology, and faith, designed to help us understand the world from which God called Abraham.