🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ur Royal Cemetery PG 800 Death Pit
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ur Royal Cemetery PG 800 Death Pit in Dhi Qar, Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Larsa Fresco House Wall Painting
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Larsa Fresco House Wall Painting in Dhi Qar, Tell as-Senkereh, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ur — Tell Muqayyar Diqdiqqah Residential
Ubaid to Neo-Babylonian (4000–500 BCE) · Sumerian
Ur — Tell Muqayyar Diqdiqqah Residential in Dhi Qar Governorate, Euphrates, Iraq is a Ubaid to Neo-Babylonian (4000–500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Sumerian culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Larsa — Tell Senkereh South Mound
Isin-Larsa (2025–1763 BCE) · Sumerian/Amorite
Larsa — Tell Senkereh South Mound in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern plain, Iraq is a Isin-Larsa (2025–1763 BCE) ancient city attributed to Sumerian/Amorite culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Bad-tibira
Ubaid to Ur III (c.5000–2000 BCE; Sumerian King List antediluvian) · Ubaid → Uruk → Sumerian antediluvian → Ur III
Bad-tibira (Tell al-Madineh) is counted in Sumerian King List as the second antediluvian city (before Shuruppak), ruled by mythical Dumuzi. Surface 50-ha mound...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Eridu
Ubaid to Neo-Babylonian · Ubaid → Sumerian → Babylonian
Sumerian sacred city traditionally first city in the world (Sumerian King List), center of god Enki/Ea cult (Abzu).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Girsu
Early Dynastic to Ur III (c.3500–2000 BCE; peak Lagash 2500–2144 BCE) · Sumerian Lagash (ÉNSI rulers: Ur-Nanshe, Eannatum, Enmetena, Gudea)
Girsu (modern Tello/Telloh) is the sacred city of Lagash state — first Sumerian city ever excavated (1877) yielding Gudea diorite statues, Gudea cylinders (worl...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Lagash
Jemdet Nasr to Ur III / Old Babylonian · Sumerian
Sumerian city-state Lagash (Tell al-Hiba proper) and its religious capital Girsu (Tello, 25 km SE) — often conflated as Lagash-Girsu.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Larsa
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian · Sumerian/Amorite Larsa dynasty
Sumerian city-state that dominated southern Mesopotamia under King Rim-Sin (1822–1763 BCE) controlling 10–15 cities before Hammurapi annexed it, making Babylon supreme.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Jokha
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (c.3500–1750 BCE; peak Umma 2600–2004 BCE) · Sumerian (Umma) → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Tell Jokha is ancient Umma, fierce rival of Lagash (Girsu) in Early Dynastic border wars — Stele of Vultures (Eannatum c.2450 BCE) and the Umma–Lagash Gu'edena...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell al-'Ubaid (Tell el-Ubaid)
Ubaid to Ur III (6500–2000 BCE; peak Ubaid 5500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid (southern Mesopotamian) → Uruk → Early Dynastic → Ur III
Type-site of the Ubaid period — low mound with tripartite temples and ophidian figurines.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Umma (Tell Jokha)
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (c.2900–1700 BCE; peak Lagash–Umma border war 2500–2350 BCE) · Sumerian (Umma ensi dynasty) → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Lagash's blood-enemy with Stele-of-Vultures war archive and 20,000 Ur III tablets of a date-palm oligarchy.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ur
Ubaid to Persian (c.3800 BCE–300 BCE; Early Dynastic/Ur III peak 2600–2000 BCE) · Sumerian / Akkadian / Babylonian / Persian
Sumerian city-state of the moon god Nanna (Sîn), Ur famous for Woolley's excavations 1922–34: Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu (2112 BCE) best-preserved ziggurat, Royal Cemetery with Standard of Ur, Pu-abi's…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Zabalam (Tell Ibzeikh) – Sumerian Temple Harbour on Iturungal
Early Dynastic to Isin-Larsa (c. 2900 – 2000 BCE) · Sumerian / Lagash-Umma / Ur III / Isin-Larsa
Inanna's canal port on Lagash–Umma waterway – Iturungal harbour revetment 40 m at –2 m.