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William Kennett Loftus visited the site of Uruk in 1849,
identifying it as "
Erech",
known as "the
second city of Nimrod", and led the
first excavations from...
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Erech can
refer to:
Erech the
biblical city
Erech (Middle-earth) - the
fictional location from J. R. R. Tolkien's
writings This
disambiguation page lists...
- city of Uruk,
called Erech in the
Bible and
Warka in Arabic. Both
scholars reject the equation.
Talmud Yoma 10a
identifies Erech with a
place called "Urichus"...
- is very
close to the
ancient Sumerian-Babylonian city of Uruk (Aramaic:
Erech),
which is
possibly the
source of the name Iraq.
After the
decline of Babylon...
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Erech/Uruk (in
southern Babylonia). In the Book of
Genesis 10:10, the
beginning of Nimrod's
kingdom is said to have been "Babel [Babylon], and
Erech [Uruk]...
- "beginning of his kingdom" (re**** mamlakhto) were the
towns of "Babel,
Erech,
Akkad and
Calneh in the land of Shinar" (Mesopotamia) (Gen 10:10)—understood...
- in
Chaldaea and Susiana: with an
account of
excavations at Warka, the "
Erech" of Nimrod, and Shush, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52. Robert...
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Lamedon and the
uplands of the
prosperous Morthond, with the
desolate Hill of
Erech, lay to the
south of the
White Mountains,
while the
populous valleys of...
- the Bible, Nimrod, a son of Cush, was the
founder and king of Babylon,
Erech,
Akkad and Calneh, in
Shinar (Gen 10:10). The
Bible also
makes reference...
-
Lexicon v. 3.0 -- see link below] modern-day Warkāʼ (arabic),
Biblical Erech Wolkstein, D.; Kramer, S. Noah (1983). Inanna,
Queen of
Heaven and Earth...
