Uruk in Podcasts
placeMajor city in ancient Mesopotamia, associated with early astronomical observations.
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It's been called the first commercial superhighway, the body of water that connected the great cities of Bronze Age Mesopotamia – Ur, Uruk and later Babylon – with faraway cultures in Oman, Arabia and the Indus River Valley some 4,000 years ago, trading goods like textiles, ceramics, carnelian and of course copper, the metal which was so vital for the Mesopotamian cities making bronze.
Yes. So this text comes from Uruk, I believe. I hope I'm not misremembering. So we're talking about what is now southern Iraq, or if you're referring to how the region is referred to in antiquity, southern Mesopotamia, which basically refers to the land between the rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. So it is a place that was home to many civilizations and cultures in antiquity.