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Sumer (/ ห s uห m ษr /) is the ... A prime example of cuneiform writing is a lengthy poem that was discovered in the ruins of Uruk.
The city's patron deity was Nanna (in Akkadian, Sin), the Sumerian and Akkadian moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god's name, UNUG KI, literally "the abode (UNUG) of Nanna". [4] The site is marked by the partially restored ruins of the Ziggurat of Ur, which
The ruins of Eridu. Eridu (Sumerian: ๐ฃ ๐ , romanized: NUN.KI; Sumerian: eridug ki; Akkadian: irîtu) was a Sumerian city located at Tell Abu Shahrain (Arabic: ุชู ุฃุจู ุดูุฑูู), also Abu Shahrein or Tell Abu Shahrayn, an archaeological site in Lower Mesopotamia. It is located in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, near the modern city of Basra.
The history of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region's earliest known civilization and ended with the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BCE. It was followed by a transitional period of Amorite states before the rise of ...
Kish (Sumerian: Kiš; Kiš ki; cuneiform: ๐ง๐ ; [1] Akkadian: Kiššatu, [2] near modern Tell al-Uhaymir) is an important archaeological site in Babil Governorate (Iraq), located 80 km (50 mi) south of Baghdad and 12 km (7.5 mi) east of the ancient city of Babylon. The Ubaid period site of Ras al-Amiyah is 8 km (5.0 mi) away.
The Ziggurat (or Great Ziggurat) of Ur (Sumerian: ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ é -temen-ní-gùru "Etemenniguru", [3] meaning "temple whose foundation creates aura") [4] is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of Ur near Nasiriyah, in present-day Dhi Qar Province, Iraq. The structure was built during the Early Bronze Age (21st century BC) but had ...
A ziggurat (/ หzษชษกสหræt /; Cuneiform: ๐ ๐๐ช, Akkadian: ziqqurratum, [2] D-stem of zaqฤrum 'to protrude, to build high', [3] cognate with other Semitic languages like Hebrew zaqar (ืึธืงึทืจ) 'protrude' [4][5]) is a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia. It has the form of a terraced compound of successively ...
Shuruppak (Sumerian: ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ Šuruppag KI, SU.KUR.RU ki, "the healing place"), modern Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient Uruk on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq 's Al-Qฤdisiyyah Governorate. Shuruppak was dedicated to Ninlil, also called ...