Great Lecture: Marshland of Cities: Lagash and its Neighbors ca. 2500 BCE
Penn Museum 3260 South St, PhiladelphiaThe earliest cities in the world arose in a dynamic wetland environment at the intersection of the Tigris-Euphrates delta and the shore of the Persian Gulf during the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE. Recent work at the site of Lagash, led by the Penn Museum, in collaboration with the University of Pisa and Cambridge University, focuses […]