Largest selection of original Biblical stock illustrations

History begins at Uruk, one of the first cities in Sumer, where the components of society we know and love today crystallized. In order to better keep track of the vast amount agricultural produce and livestock that was brought into the Temple of Inanna (pictured here) for storage and redistribution, clever bureaucrats invented writing. And thanks to writing we have the first mythological epic preserved on clay tablets that tells of a king of Uruk, Gilgamesh, who went on a quest to find immortality.