Lagash
Americannoun
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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
There were, as we have seen, several quarters in Lagash, and therefore several sacred precincts, so that we cannot be certain that all of these sanctuaries stood in one and the same quarter.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
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