@historyfiles.bsky.socialKesh: apart from being linked to #AbuSalabikh this name has also been proposed for #Ubaid, near #Ur, Tell al-Wilayah, which lies close to #Adab, or perhaps Tell Jidr.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialEresh / #AbuSalabikh: the #Sumerian name is unknown for this modern #archaeological site, once a minor city, rarely included on #cylinderseals, but #Eresh is lightly linked with it.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialSumer #Map: the very earliest #Sumerian cities, such as Sippar & Borsippa in the north & Ur & Uruk in the south, formed endpoints of a complex network of cities & canals.
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@diggingupthepast.netEpisode 8 is out now!
In ancient Mesopotamia, beer may have been safer than water. And no, they weren't drunk all day.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialIsin: already existed under #UrIII rule but there are no records in the #Sumerian period of any rulers here: instead the city only achieved self-rule in the last Ur III days.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialAgade / #Akkad: at best this city was seen as being on the north edges of traditional #Sumerian territory, with #TellMuhammad on the outskirts of #Baghdad a candidate.
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@mycrazyfamilytree.bsky.social
@historyfiles.bsky.socialSumerian King List: the highly important #Sumerian #kinglist was written in #cuneiform on clay tablets, with the first version appearing during the #UrIII period.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialMari: this important city is the modern archaeological site of #TellHariri on the west bank of the #Euphrates, the most northerly of all the #Sumerian city states.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialLagash / #Sirpula: the rulers of #Lagash are absent from the #Sumerian king list even though the early leader, #Eannatum, built a short-lived empire out of local city states.
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@nighttimetea.bsky.socialThe Kesh Temple Hymn tablets are HERE IN Baltimore and I’m going to go see them this week.
Will any other tablet ever be as cool as the tablet of Kesh?
@diggingupthepast.netGhost stories aren't new. Ancient Mesopotamians were telling creepy tales about the dead thousands of years ago.
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@4quazulu.bsky.social@historyfiles.bsky.socialUruk: this was already a major city by 3300 BC, being here that #Sumerian civilisation seems to have reached its creative and social peak with familiar urban human themes emerging.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialKish: this city flourished in the full bloom of #Sumerian civilisation during the #EarlyDynastic, at the start of the 2000s BC, and was of major importance before eventual decline set in.
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@historyfiles.bsky.social#Sumerian Effect in #Iran: #archaeologists worldwide had fits in the early 2000s when evidence was found of a long-lived culture with a vast network of societies & early cities.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialBad-tibira: second city state in the #Antediluvian #Sumerian king list, #Badtibira was on the #IturungalCanal, near #Umma, now the site of #TellMadineh.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialUbaid Culture: the crossover between prehistory & early urban civilisation, named after the type site of #Tellal-Ubaid in southern #Mesopotamia, where pottery was found.
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