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Multi-periodSite Name: Uruk. Alternative Name: Erech, Orchoë, WarkaCountry: Iraq Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: As Samawah Nearest Village: Tell Warka
Latitude: 31.318443N Longitude: 45.634513E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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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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