The World’s First City
Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss Uruk, the first city in the whole of world history and the mother of modern urbanisation ...
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Mesopotamia’s 6,000-year-old cylinders with antique symbols uncover birth of writing
However, proto-cuneiform is only found in southern Iraq. Thus ... As one of the first cities to rise in Mesopotamia, Uruk became a hub in the fourth millennium BCE. Its broad area of influence ...
Excavations at Kurd Qaburstan uncover clues to ancient Mesopotamian city of Qabra
Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a ...
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Fortification strategies of Middle Bronze Age: Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia
"Although excavation in eastern Syria has provided a wealth of information in recent decades concerning fortified sites in northern Mesopotamia during the third millennium, evidence from ...