where is this city located?
East of the present bed of the Euphrates River on the dried-up ancient channel of the Euphrates east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq
Uruk
Uruk (; Sumerian: Cuneiform: , "unug", Akkadian: "Uruk" (); , '; Aramaic/Hebrew: '; , Ὀρέχ "Orékh", "") was an ancient city of Sumer (and later of Babylonia) situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates River on the dried-up ancient channel of the Euphrates east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.
who lived for many years in the bible Methuselah who is he? A biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has he been mentioned in any other sacred works? Apocryphal Book of Enoch are there any legends surrounding him? The Sumerian King List mentions a character named Ubara-Tutu who seems almost identical to Methuselah what is this list ? An ancient text in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer from Sumerian and neighboring dynasties, their supposed reign lengths, and the locations of the kingship can you mention any such ruler? Lugal-zage-si which place did he rule? Sumer where is this region located now? Southern Iraq was this country ever under any foreign rule? Yes. British rule what languages are spoken here? Mesopotamian Arabic, Kurdish, Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman dialect of Turkish, and the Neo-Aramaic languages have they constructed / laid anything under the sea? On 18 January 2012, Iraq was connected to the undersea communications network for the first time did the country face any civil upheaval in the recent times? Serious civil unrest rocked the country beginning in Baghdad and Najaf in July 2018 and spreading to other provinces in late September 2019 as rallies to protest corruption, unemployment, and public service failures turned violent how did this country get its name? One theory is that it originates from Sumerian city of Uruk (Biblical Hebrew "Erech") and is thus ultimately of Sumerian origin
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Uruk [SEP] Introduction
Uruk (; Sumerian: Cuneiform: , "unug", Akkadian: "Uruk" (); , '; Aramaic/Hebrew: '; , Ὀρέχ "Orékh", "") was an ancient city of Sumer (and later of Babylonia) situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates River on the dried-up ancient channel of the Euphrates east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq. Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BC. By the final phase of the Uruk period around 3100 BCE, the city may have had 40,000 residents, with 80,000-90,000 people living in its environs, making it the largest urban area in the world at the time.