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Tell Uqair (Tell Uquair, Tell Aqair) is a tell or settlement mound northeast of Babylon and about south of Baghdad in modern Babil Governorate, Iraq.[1]

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  1. 25 relations: Akkadian Empire, Babylon, Babylon Governorate, Babylonia, Baghdad, Blau Monuments, Clay tablet, Heidelberg University, Iraq, Jemdet Nasr period, Kish (Sumer), Kutha, List of cities of the ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Nebuchadnezzar II, Proto-cuneiform, Seton Lloyd, Sin (mythology), Sippar, Taha Baqir, Tell (archaeology), Third Dynasty of Ur, Ubaid period, Uruk, Uruk period.

  2. 1941 archaeological discoveries
  3. History of Babylon Governorate
  4. Jemdet Nasr period
  5. Ubaid period
  6. Uruk period

Akkadian Empire

The Akkadian Empire was the first known ancient empire of Mesopotamia, succeeding the long-lived civilization of Sumer.

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Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Tell Uqair and Babylon are archaeological sites in Iraq, former populated places in Iraq and history of Babylon Governorate.

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Babylon Governorate

Babylon Governorate or Babil Province (محافظة بابل Muḥāfaẓa Bābil) is a governorate in central Iraq.

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Babylonia

Babylonia (𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran).

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Blau Monuments

The Blau Monuments are a pair of inscribed stone objects from Mesopotamia now in the British Museum.

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Clay tablet

In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (Akkadian 𒁾) were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age.

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Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Jemdet Nasr period

The Jemdet Nasr Period is an archaeological culture in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).

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Kish (Sumer)

Kish (Kiš;; cuneiform: 𒆧𒆠; Kiššatu, near modern Tell al-Uhaymir) is an important archaeological site in Babil Governorate (Iraq), located south of Baghdad and east of the ancient city of Babylon. Tell Uqair and Kish (Sumer) are archaeological sites in Iraq, former populated places in Iraq and history of Babylon Governorate.

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Kutha

Kutha, Cuthah, Cuth or Cutha (كُوثَا, Sumerian: Gû.du8.aki, Akkadian: Kûtu), modern Tell Ibrahim (also Tell Habl Ibrahlm) (تَلّ إِبْرَاهِيم), is an archaeological site in Babil Governorate, Iraq. Tell Uqair and Kutha are archaeological sites in Iraq, former populated places in Iraq and history of Babylon Governorate.

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List of cities of the ancient Near East

The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or with that by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Nebuchadnezzar II

Nebuchadnezzar II (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"; Biblical Hebrew: Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar), also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his own death in 562 BC.

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Proto-cuneiform

The proto-cuneiform script was a system of proto-writing that emerged in Mesopotamia, eventually developing into the early cuneiform script used in the region's Early Dynastic I period.

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Seton Lloyd

Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, (30 May 1902 – 7 January 1996), was an English archaeologist.

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Sin (mythology)

Sin or Suen (𒀭𒂗𒍪, dEN.ZU) also known as Nanna (𒀭𒋀𒆠 DŠEŠ.KI, DNANNA) is the Mesopotamian god representing the moon.

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Sippar

Sippar (Sumerian:, Zimbir) was an ancient Near Eastern Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates river. Tell Uqair and Sippar are archaeological sites in Iraq and former populated places in Iraq.

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Taha Baqir

Taha Baqir (طه باقر) (born 1912 in Babylon, Ottoman Iraq – 28 February 1984) was an Iraqi Assyriologist, author, cuneiformist, linguist, historian, and former curator of the National Museum of Iraq.

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Tell (archaeology)

In archaeology a tell (borrowed into English from تَلّ,, "mound" or "small hill") is an artificial topographical feature, a mound consisting of the accumulated and stratified debris of a succession of consecutive settlements at the same site, the refuse of generations of people who built and inhabited them and natural sediment.

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Third Dynasty of Ur

The Third Dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, refers to a 22nd to 21st century BC (middle chronology) Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state which some historians consider to have been a nascent empire.

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Ubaid period

The Ubaid period (c. 5500–3700 BC) is a prehistoric period of Mesopotamia.

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Uruk

Uruk, known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river. Tell Uqair and Uruk are archaeological sites in Iraq, former populated places in Iraq, Jemdet Nasr period, Ubaid period and Uruk period.

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Uruk period

The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC; also known as Protoliterate period) existed from the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age period in the history of Mesopotamia, after the Ubaid period and before the Jemdet Nasr period.

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See also

1941 archaeological discoveries

History of Babylon Governorate

Jemdet Nasr period

Ubaid period

Uruk period

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Uqair

Also known as Urum (Babylonia), Urum (Sumer), Urum, Babylonia.