Archaeological site Mesopotamia and the Levant
Uruk
Ancient city of Sumer and Babylonia
- Dated from 3200 BCE
- Also called Erech, Erekh, Auruk
Within the site
Inside Uruk
1 recorded place within the site, from their own records.
What this means
A place listed here names this site as its whole or its location in its own record; the build reads that from the place’s end, so the row is computed rather than stated by the site. It does not imply that the site as a whole was a place of worship, that its parts were in use at the same time, or that these are all the places it held.
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 3200 BCE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not a date of worship there. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Uruk, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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35 km awayBad-tibira
human settlement -
52 km awayShuruppak
archaeological site in Iraq -
58 km awayE-ninnu
sumerian temple for Ningirsu in Girsu -
59 km awayGirsu
ancient Sumerian city -
60 km awayZiggurat of Ur
early Bronze Age ziggurat in present-day Iraq -
60 km awayUr
ancient Mesopotamian city-state -
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66 km awayEridu
archaeological site in Iraq -
76 km awayAdab
city in Sumer
Connections
How Uruk connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Place 4
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
9 statements on this record
- 8 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 recorded place within it. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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