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Uruk
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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.
Site Information
Country: Iraq
District: Muthanna Governorate
Site History: Fourth Millennium BC
Oldest Culture: Sumer
Later Cultures: Mixed
Site Features: Sumerian & Babylonian Monuments
World Heritage Site
Date of Inscription: 2016
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