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Editorial Notes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Uruk is the ancient name of the great ruin-field of Warka, which is situated near the station of El Khidr on the Irak railway, about 20 kilometres north of the Euphrates. It is now in the heart of a desert region almost exactly in the middle of the land of Sumer (the Shinar of the Old Testament).

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Antiquity , Volume 10 , Issue 38 , June 1936 , pp. 129 - 132
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1936