00:00Before cities touched the clouds, before kings carved laws in stone,
00:04there was only earth, water, and the people who learned to live between them.
00:09Under the wide skies of Mesopotamia, the land between two rivers,
00:13the world's first cities rose, Uruk or Lagash.
00:19They grew from mud and faith and the promise of water.
00:22But when the rivers failed them, people turned their eyes underground,
00:26to the dark veins hidden beneath the soil.
00:29There, they found their salvation, and perhaps, their ruin.
00:34This is the story of how humanity dug deep, too deep,
00:37and how the groundwater that built the first urban world slowly became its undoing.
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