Neil deGrasse Tyson:
Must we die? Are there beings in the cosmos who live forever afloat on an endless journey down the river of time?
They call this place Uruk. We call it Iraq. It's a part of Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.
One of humanity's greatest victories was won in the ceaseless battle against time. It was here that we learned how to write. Death could no longer silence us.
And writing gave us the power to reach across the millennia and speak inside the heads of the living.
No one has ever spoken across a longer stretch of time's river than this Akkadian princess, daughter of the first emperor in history, and priestess of the Moon Enheduanna.
For not only did she write poetry, but Enheduanna did something no one before her had ever done - she signed her name to her work.
She's the first person for whom we can say we know who she was, and what she dreamed.
She dreamt of stepping through the Gate of Wonder. Here's a thought Enheduanna sent across more than 4,000 years to you. It's from her work entitled "Lady of the Largest Heart."
"Innana, the planet Venus, goddess of love, will have a great destiny throughout the entire universe."
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