Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss Uruk, the first city in the whole of world history and the mother of modern urbanisation ...

However, proto-cuneiform is only found in southern Iraq. Thus ... As one of the first cities to rise in Mesopotamia, Uruk became a hub in the fourth millennium BCE. Its broad area of influence ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a ...