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Remember that you can also follow the 2020 UPV Alcoy Campus Science Week lectures: • Science Week 2020 #SCAlcoi20 16 November 2015 This afternoon, the Roberto García Payá Degree Hall hosted the lecture “History begins in Summer” by Mrs. Ana María Vázquez Hoys, Professor of Ancient History and writer, who also collaborates in educational content programmes broadcast on radio and television and gives speeches at Ancient History conferences. She studied at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) before becoming a Professor at the National University of Distance Education (UNED). The lecture Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians came up with the idea of starting to write on clay. Since then, they have been perfecting the method so that by the middle of the second millennium, more than a thousand years before the Bible or the Iliad, they had already recorded in writing on cuneiform tablets a mythology and an epic, a love and elegiac lyric, a didactic, fable-like and proverbial literature, a cosmogony and a cosmology. Dr. Vázquez will give us an image of the inner history of that first urban civilization. More information: https://www.semanaciencia.alcoy.upv.es Visit the YouTube channel of the UPV's Alcoi Campus: / upvalcoy Follow us on / campusupvdealcoy and on: / campusupvalcoy For more information about the university: http://www.epsa.upv.es