Lagash
Americannoun
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"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 ● 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
In the south, as already intimated, the rulers of Lagash and the dynasty of Ur are the earliest of which we have any record.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
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