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Uruk

Uruk

Sumerian city that grew into the first great city of the late fourth millennium BCE and where the earliest writing was found.

Place

Also known as Warka, Erech

Identifiers
Wikidata Q168518

Sources

Appears in13 items

  • History of the Universe1 item
    • Writing in Sumerc. 3,200 BCE
  • Inventions That Changed the World1 item
    • Writingc. 3,300 BCE
  • Mesopotamia7 items
    • Uruk periodc. 4,000 BCE O.S.
    • Uruk colonies on the Euphratesc. 3,400 BCE O.S.
    • Uruk, the first cityc. 3,300 BCE O.S.
    • Temple accountants invent writingc. 3,300 BCE O.S.
    • The Uruk Vasec. 3,100 BCE O.S.
    • Early Dynastic periodc. 2,900 BCE O.S.
    • Gilgamesh, king of Urukc. 2,700 BCE O.S.
  • The History of Money1 item
    • Barley accounts at Urukc. 3,000 BCE O.S.
  • The History of Writing3 items
    • Proto-cuneiform tablets at Urukc. 3,300 BCE
    • Labels in tomb U-j at Abydosc. 3,250 BCE
    • Last datable cuneiform tabletc. 79 CE

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