Uruk city

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A short travel brochure showing some of the highlights of Ancient Uruk.

The Sumerians were the first known people to settle in Mesopotamia over 7,000 years ago, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern day Iraq). Sumer was often called the cradle of civilization. By the 4th millennium BC, it had established an advanced system writing, spectacular arts and architecture, astronomy and mathematics. The origin of the Sumerians remains a mystery till this day.

City plan of Uruk, Sumerian capital during Uruk period (4000-3100 BCE). City played an important role in the early urbanization of Sumer, and likely the largest city in the world at its height in early 3rd mill. BCE.

Uruk - Ur - The Great Ziggurat - Crystalinks

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust…This is Uruk, the world’s first great city, home of Gilgamesh, hero of the world’s first great work of literature.

Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, lies a land once known as Mesopotamia. It was here that humanity found suitable land to rip open and seed. Once the seeds took root, civilization was born.

MESOPOTAMIAN TEMPLES, ZIGGURATS AND ARCHITECTURE | Facts and Details

Mari - Mesopotamian City The Mesopotamian city of Mari is identified with modern Tell Hariri, located on the west bank of the Euphrates ...

For a while now, we have been working on several reconstructions for the Uruk Visualisation Project. On our website you will find examples from the Late Uruk Period as well as the Seleucid Period. Besides that, we visualised the ziggurat of the Ur-III Period as well as the famous White Temple, the Stone-Cone Building and the Sin-kashid […]