The distinctive beveled-rim bowls found at Shakhi Kora are similar to those found at Uruk and other contemporary sites in the ...

Thus, they claim a structural link can be drawn between these seals and the earliest forms of writing in Uruk. As one of the first cities to rise in Mesopotamia, Uruk became a hub in the fourth ...

However, Uruk was the world's only large city in the ... As life around ancient Mesopotamia became international, characters needed to express the nuances of spoken language rather than record ...

The scrolls were found in what was once the city of Uruk, tucked between the Tigris and Euphrates river in present day Iraq. Uruk was one of the first cities to emerge in Mesopotamia and was an ...

Among the first cities to emerge in Mesopotamia, Uruk was an immensely important center throughout the fourth millennium BCE, exerting influence over a large region extending from southwestern ...

The archaeological cities of Uruk and Ur and the Tell Eridu archaeological site form part of the remains of the Sumerian cities and settlements that developed in southern Mesopotamia between the 4th ...

“We wanted to see whether the traditional explanation of how writing was born in Mesopotamia in Uruk in the fourth millennium is really valid,” Professor Silvia Ferrara, the lead ...

The book starts in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, where markings on clay tokens that served as financial records evolved into cuneiform, one of the earliest forms of writing. Early financial ...

Joshua K. Leon explores 6,000 years of urban networks and the politics that drove them, from Uruk in the fourth millennium BCE to Amsterdam's seventeenth-century 'golden age.' He provides a fresh, ...