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Here are the first few paragraphs of our very first issue — just enough to feel the voice.
Issue No. 001
c. 3500 B.C.
The Story of Ancient Mesopotamia
Many people believe many different things about how humans came to this earth and how civilizations began. Regardless of one's beliefs, most historians today agree on one thing: civilization began in a region called Mesopotamia — between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now Iraq.
The two rivers created an area of fresh, fertile land in an otherwise very dry place — aptly named the Fertile Crescent. Living between them was ideal for early settlers to farm… until the rivers would flood and destroy everything. This created a hot Mess o' potamia.
To solve the problem, the settlers dug canals to split the rivers and divert the water away from homes and farms. Through these canals they created irrigation, moving water to the fields in a controlled way. Suddenly they grew more food than they needed…
The canals, the Sumerians, cuneiform, the wheel, and the Ziggurat of Ur — all arrive in your mailbox in Issue No. 001.
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Every issue arrives with something to hold and something to keep — so the history sticks.
A replica cuneiform tablet card
A heavy, debossed keepsake card showing real Sumerian cuneiform — the world's first writing, pressed into clay over 5,000 years ago. Flip it over to decode a few symbols yourself.
Each issue comes with a different collectible artifact — a map, a coin, a hieroglyph — matched to that month's story.
The Atlas of Ages sticker book
Your first envelope includes the Atlas of Ages — a fold-out timeline of world history. Every issue then ships with a sticker sheet for that civilization.
Place Mesopotamia at the dawn of the timeline, then add Egypt, China, and Greece as each issue arrives. Month by month, kids build the whole story of the ancient world with their own hands.
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