Sumerian Timeline

5000 BCE – 200 BCE · 2 sites

All sites in this period

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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Iraq

Ur

3800 BCE – 500 BCE

Ur, a major Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, flourished from 3800 BCE to 500 BCE, renowned for its massive ziggurat, opulent royal tombs, and as the traditional birthplace of Abraham.

ChalcolithicBronze AgeIron Age

The Loftus mound at Uruk (Warka), southern Iraq, site of the world's first city

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Oldest City in Iraq

Uruk

5000 BCE – 200 BCE

The world's first city — a 6-kilometre urban complex on the Euphrates in southern Mesopotamia that pioneered writing, monumental public architecture, cylinder seals, and civic organization around 3200 BCE, and whose legendary king Gilgamesh inspired the oldest surviving work of literature.

ChalcolithicBronze Age