Lagash
an ancient Sumerian city between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, at the modern village of Telloh in SE Iraq: a palace, statuary, and inscribed clay tablets unearthed here.
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“There could have been multiple evolving ways for Lagash to be a city of marsh islands as human occupation and environmental change reshaped the landscape,” Hammer says.
Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands | Bruce Bower | October 13, 2022 | Science NewsHe scrambled back to the road and walked onward a little faster, until the battlements of Lagash came in sight.
Insidekick | Jesse Franklin BoneThe tablets in question include texts belonging both to first and second Dynasties of Lagash (Tell).
Mesopotamian Archaeology | Percy S. P. HandcockSome time after, Lagash succeeded in asserting her independence, and many of her subsequent rulers style themselves “kings.”
Mesopotamian Archaeology | Percy S. P. HandcockBut the importance of Lagash was soon to pass away, and Ur became the dominating power in Babylonia.
Mesopotamian Archaeology | Percy S. P. Handcock
Entemena, one of the more famous rulers of the first dynasty of Lagash, and takes the form of a magnificent silver vase.
Mesopotamian Archaeology | Percy S. P. Handcock
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