The most important questions we can ask are about ourselves, not only as individuals, but as a species. 

Where did we come from? How did we get here?

A question that has bedevilled us for as long as we can remember is: Where and when did we take the step from savagery to civilisation?

Mainstream historians, who write our textbooks, insist they know: in Mesopotamia, about 5500 years ago.


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