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Ancient city of the Sumerian civilization, in modern Iraq. Excavations by the British archaeologist Leonard Woolley show that it was inhabited from about 3500 BC. He discovered evidence of a flood that may have inspired the Epic of Gilgamesh as well as the biblical account, and remains of ziggurats, or step pyramids.



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