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“Climb the stone staircase, more ancient than the mind can imagine” – The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Sumerians of Mesopotamia, the Elamites of the Persian plateau, and the Egyptians of the Nile River valley were among the first civilizations to emerge in the ancient world.
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