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Sumerian city of Lagash slowly emerging from desert sands
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Remains from the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash are seen north of Nasiriyah, July 17, 2016. (photo by Adnan Abu Zeed)
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NASIRIYAH, Iraq The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added Iraq's Ahwar marshes, including the sites of Uruk, Ur and Tell Eridu, to its World Heritage List on July 17. Iraq has many other sites deserving of such recognition, among them the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash.
A desert wind has been blowing for hundreds of years over the hills of Lagash, today's al-Hiba, in al-Dawayah district, north of Nasiriyah. There have been intermittent excavations since the city was first excavated by a group of German archaeologists led by Robert Koldewey in 1877, but the majority of the city's ruins remain buried beneath sand.
What distinguishes the site from many others is that it extends over a large area, some 15 square miles. The city of Lagash was the political capital of the Lagash city-state. The site is considered an archaeological treasure in the Middle East.
Amer Abdul Razzaq, the director of the archaeology department of Dhi Qar province and lecturer in the faculty of archaeology at Baghdad University, told Al-Monitor, Lagash is one the most important Sumerian cities in the Shinar plain in Iraq, where the first Sumerian cities emerged more than 4,000 years ago. Lagash was the most important one founded by King Ur in 1900 B.C., with its temples and palaces.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/07/lagash-sumerian-iraq-babylon.html#ixzz4EwOKEhaC
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Can't have no worship of idols.
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)Someday all of this religious insanity will pass. That will be the proper moment for scientific excavations and study.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Its waited this long.....
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It existed 6,000 years ago and is the first civilization in the Tigris Euphrates cradle of civilization that Art History talks about. The writing is named cuneiform script and is believed to be the earliest form of writing.
I hope ISIS leaves it alone.
Examples of Sumerian writing at the link
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sumerian+writing&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYw5ST-YLOAhUD-2MKHV6rBesQsAQIJA&biw=1028&bih=787#tbm=isch&q=Sumerian+writing&chips=q:sumerian+writing,g_2:cuneiform
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)... anything toward civilization and culture.
obviously.
:Channeling Rep. King: obviously.
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lunatica
(53,410 posts)gordianot
(15,238 posts)The home of the birth of human civilization at risk by forces that are not exactly civilized by any standard.