Then vs Now :

Uruk is regarded by many scholars as humanity’s first great urban center and city. Uruk was so large and important it gave its name to an entire age of Sumerian history . It was continuously inhabited from about 5000 BC up to 5th Century AD. The city was so famous one scribe said it was “like the rainbow, reaches up to the sky as the new moon standing in the heavens.

The oldest known examples of writing were found here. It legendary king Gilgamesh was the subject of the oldest known epic. The great city wall that surrounded it said to have been built by Gilgamesh after his quest for eternal life failed. “Climb up in the wall of Uruk,” the story goes. “Walk along it, I say; regard the foundation terrace and examine the masonry; is not the burnt brick good?” The wall was discovered by German archaeologists in the late 19th century.

Uruk lasted until the late third millennia B.C. when it was invaded from the north by an alliance of Akkadians, Guteans and Elamites.

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