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Multi-periodSite Name: Uruk. Alternative Name: Erech, Orchoë, Warka
Country: Iraq Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: As Samawah  Nearest Village: Tell Warka
Latitude: 31.318443N  Longitude: 45.634513E
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Uruk. submitted by AlexHunger : Excavated remains of the Inana Temple (Ishtar Temple) dating to ca 1400 BCE from Uruk at the Berlin Pergamum museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Iraq

The Sumerian and later Babylonian Uruk represents one of the world's first cities and was situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates, on the line of the ancient Nil canal, in a region of marshes, about 230 km SSE from Baghdad. At its height, Uruk was probably the largest city in the world at its time with 50,000-80,000 residents living in 6 square kilometres of walled area. Uruk is said to have had a full-time bureaucracy, military, and stratified society. It was the capital city of the famous Epic hero Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh's, predecessor and founded of Uruk, Enmerkar (-KAR meaning "hunter" and therefore associated with Nimrod) constructed the walls and the temple called Eanna, dedicated to the worship of Inanna also known as Ishtar. The temple archive of the Neo-Babylonian period survived. The German archeologist von Oppenheim believes that in "In Uruk, in southern Mesopotamia, Sumerian civilization seems to have reached its creative peak. This is pointed out repeatedly in the references to this city in religious and, especially, in literary texts, including those of mythological content; the historical tradition as preserved in the Sumerian king-list confirms it. From Uruk the center of political gravity seems to have moved to Ur." In Genesis, Erech, the biblical name of Uruk, was said to have been the second city founded by Nimrod. Uruk was first excavated by a German teams before World War I and into the 1950s.
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Uruk. submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing of the site, from "History of Egypt..." via archive.org Site in Iraq (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Uruk. submitted by durhamnature : Slightly different plan, from "History of Egypt...." via archive,org Site in Iraq (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Uruk. submitted by durhamnature : Early plan of the site, from "Five Great Monarchies..." via archive.org Site in Iraq (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Major exhibition at the Pergamon Museum: Uruk – 5000 Years of the Megacity by davidmorgan on Monday, 14 January 2013
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