URUK, First City of the Gods

Uruk stood on the southern Mesopotamian plain, built from mudbrick, river clay, labour, grain, ritual, and memory. Its ruins at Warka preserve one of the oldest great urban sites in the world: temple districts, administrative buildings, mass-produced bowls, sealings, proto-cuneiform tablets, and sacred architecture rebuilt over centuries. This book investigates the city behind the famous names: In...