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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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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

The digs at Lagash, which was first excavated in 1968, had shut down after 1990, and the site remained dormant until 2019.

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

Afterwards, Lagash became the general name for the capitol through being the quarter where the great palace of the king was erected.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

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