Uruk : first city of the ancient world /
More than one hundred years ago, discoveries from a German archaeological dig at Uruk, roughly two hundred miles south of present-day Baghdad, sent shock waves through the scholarly world. Founded at the end of the fifth millennium BCE, Uruk was the main force for urbanization in what has come to be...
| Uniform Title: | Uruk (Michael Imhof Verlag). |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
The J. Paul Getty Museum,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The myth
- The city
- A metropolis circa 3000 BC
- Urban life
- Research in and about Uruk.