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