Uruk - The House of Heaven

Uruks, nine kilometer long mud brick city wall built around two thousand 900 b c, was the work of gilgamesh. Following two exploratory seasons of excavation at uruk in 18 50 and 18 54 by the english geologist am kennett loftus, german archaeologists conducted further 39 campaigns between 19 12 and two thousand and three concentrating on a large complex of monumental buildings. In addition to yielding an enormous amount of information on early architecture, the iana excavations resulted in the discovery of nearly four thousand archaic texts which are among the earliest examples of proto cuneform known from mesopotamia. Even though these tablets were recovered from trash deposits, dumped like archive tax