8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities

WATCH AD-FREE: In the dusts of Iraq, the ruins of the world's first civilization lie buried. This episode, we travel into the extremely distant past to look at the Sumerians. These ancient people invented writing and mathematics, and built some of the largest cities that the world had ever seen....

148 min - Ancient Worlds - Fall of Civilizations

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