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Uruk
Uruk was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the dried-up, ancient channel of the Euphrates River, east of modern As-Samawah, Al-Muthann?, Iraq. The city was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of The Ahwar of Southern Iraq in 2016.
The site is one of the elements that make up the UNESCO World Heritage site, The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities.
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Uruk
World Heritage Site
Date of Inscription
2016
Fourth Millennium BC
Sumer
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