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Also Known As Orchoë • Uruk • Tall al-Warkāʾ

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Erech, Iraq
decorated columns by the Sumerians
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Iraq
Sumerian cuneiform tablet
Sumer
ancient region, Iraq
Sites associated with ancient Mesopotamian history
history of Mesopotamia
historical region, Asia

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Enmerkar
Mesopotamian hero

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Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)
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The caves of Qumran on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, in the West Bank. The site of the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in 1947.
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