Civilization and Its True Origins: Ancient Near East Lecture Series

For centuries, historians have held that Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Harrappa were the earliest civilizations.  But is this historically accurate?  New archaeological evidence from a series of sites in the prehistoric Near East proves otherwise.  The first-city states emerged thousands of years before Mesopotamia in a world strange and unusual, where the supernatural, stone, and the stupendous co-existed.  Learn the circumstances of humanity's first city-states in part 1 of this series on the Ancient Near East, delivered to you by historian Dr. Judd Burton,, Director and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Biblical Anthropology.