Lagash

American  

[ley-gash] / ˈleɪ gæʃ /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Their work builds on years of collaborative research through the Lagash Archaeological Project, which brings together Iraqi archaeologists and the Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania.

From Science Daily

The region's city-states -- Ur, Uruk, and Lagash among them -- developed complex political and religious systems that became the blueprint for later societies.

From Science Daily

"The radical conclusions of this study are clear in what we're finding at Lagash," adds Holly Pittman, Director of the Penn Museum's Lagash Archaeological Project.

From Science Daily

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

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