Uruk
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Gilgamesh returns to his kingdom of Uruk not as a conqueror but as a witness: to loss, to limitation, to the fragile beauty of what cannot last.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
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 ● Oct. 27, 2025
Around 2120 BCE, however, the Sumerians came together under the leadership of the cities of Uruk and Ur and expelled the Guti from their homeland.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Salt is also causing damage at the ruins of Uruk, the first city where writing is known to have been practiced.
From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2022
I returned home to Uruk and told my scribes the snake had stolen it.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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