Uruk (present day Al-Muthannā), Iraq

Via flickr

archaeologistforhire:

URUK RISES AGAIN IN DIGITAL 3D

Uruk: 5000 Years of the Megacity that marks the 100th anniversary of the first excavations at Uruk

The Staatliche Museen’s Vorderasiatisches Museum (Museum of the Ancient Near East) and the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim collaborated with the German Archaeological Institute’s Orient Department and the German Oriental Society  to create a comprehensive display, featuring objects from the Vorderasiatisches Museum’s own collection and the Uruk-Warka collection of the German Archaeological Institute, which is maintained by the University of Heidelberg. The German-held works will be supplemented by further extraordinary objects from other museums, including the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris.

The exhibition – along with these stunning digital models of the buildings promises to be an impressive demonstration of the emergence and blossoming of one of the oldest known cities in human history and will reveal how the many facets of urban life known to have first evolved in Uruk impacted not just on the ancient Near East, but the wider world as a whole.

Photo © artefacts-berlin.de; Scientific material: German Archaeological Institute (DAI)

Cool video at source too!

Uruk, Possibly World’s First Metropolis, Is On View At Pergamon Museum In Berlin (PHOTOS)

worldofmesopotamia:

Limestone cup from Uruk: Ht 12.7 cm. 3,100-3,000 BCE, Uruk in Southern Iraq (Photo from pg. 53 of D. Collon’s 1995 Ancient Near Eastern Art).

“Uruk: 5000 Years of the Megacity” at the Pergamon museum in Berlin

Uruk

Uruk (Warka)

Don’t you just wish you could be there?

Pottery from Uruk (Warka)

[Iraqi National Museum]

Uruk ruins

Uruk: Drain for Eanna ziggurat