Matthew LaCroix

But as I've been going along with this, there have been some things I've had to change.

The first thing is the Sumerians had no writings.

That's a big one.

That's going to be a bomb for people.

How could the Sumerians had written about written about their own destruction if they were destroyed?

It doesn't work that way.

They had no writings because they're part of the same civilization that I. They're an extension of that.

They're an early iteration of what became something much greater.

They didn't believe in leaving writings behind because like Socrates said, Socrates felt that writings could be misinterpreted very easily.

We're going to drop some bombs here.

No, they're younger.

So we're going to drop some bombs here.

We're going to need to reformat some things here.

What archaeologists think is Sumerian is not.

It's actually Neo-Akkadian.

There are no Sumerian writings that exist.

They did not write anything down.

What happened was Gilgamesh, during the time period of Uruk and the reemergence of Mesopotamia, that he became part of what's called the Neo-Akkadian civilization.

Now,

Ryan, can you pull up that slide on Uruk and describing Uruk and the Sumerians for a minute?