Lagash

American

[ley-gash] / ˈleɪ gæʃ /

noun

an ancient Sumerian city between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, at the modern village of Telloh in SE Iraq: a palace, statuary, and inscribed clay tablets unearthed here.

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Using environmental and geological data, sediment samples from Lagash, and high-resolution satellite imagery, the team recreated what Sumer's coastline once looked like.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025

Gleick traces the history of conflicts to the first known war over water nearly 4,500 years ago between the ancient Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma in what is now southern Iraq.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Associated Press writers Nabil al-Jurani in Lagash and Ali Abdul Hassan in Baghdad contributed to this report.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2023

In his 1941 short story "Nightfall", Isaac Asimov takes us to Lagash, a planet deep in a globular cluster surrounded by not one, not two, not three – but six nearby stars.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2012

It was a hell of a note, Albert reflected, sitting beside the road that led to Lagash and working upon the bonds that tied him to the chair.

From Insidekick by Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin)

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