2000 Years Since Anyone's Heard Babylonian Poetry Read Aloud - Click to Hear It Now

"We have seen Babylonian language, whether we recognized it as such or not. It's that stuff on every ancient tablet in every adventure movie you've ever seen that doesn't have a crane or a guy dancing (that, scientifically speaking, is Egyptian). The writing system, quite possibly the first humans devised, consists of lines and wedges. The language itself, however, has lain silent for 2,000 years."

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