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Tides may have powered the rise of the world’s first cities

Ancient Tigris River tides, not royal canals, powered early farming and helped spark the first cities in Mesopotamia.
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The First Civilization in Ancient Mesopotamia Thrived Thanks to Rivers and Tides

Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who built the first civilization - literally. Rising in southern Mesopotamia around 6,000 years ago, Sumer bridged a network of city-states ...
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The Sumerians their history, culture, and character Samuel Noah Kramer

Archeology and decipherment -- History : heroes, kings, and ensi's -- Society : the Sumerian city -- Religion : theology, rite, and myth -- Literature : the Sumerian ...
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Lagash I - the ceramic corpus from al-Hiba, 1968-1990 a chrono-typology of the pottery tradition in southern Mesopotamia during the third and early second millenium BCE Steve ...

Between 1968 and 1990, Donald P. Hansen and Vaughn E. Crawford directed six seasons of excavations at al-Hiba, the ancient Sumerian city-state Lagash. Overseen by Edward L. Ochsenschlager, the team ...