Lagash: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Ṭalʿah • Girsu • Telloh

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silver vase of King Entemena, from Lagash

Lagash archaeological site, Iraq

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Topics

Babylon Ur Nineveh Ctesiphon Calah Eridu Kūfah Ashur Nippur Hatra

Iraq

country, Asia

Sumerian cuneiform tablet

Sumer

ancient region, Iraq

Key People

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Ernest de Sarzec

French archaeologist

Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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