Archaeological Ethics, Karen D. Vitelli, pp. 93, Rowman Altamira, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7591-0963-6, ... Taufiq Abed Muhamed, head of antiquities and sites for Muthanna Province in southwestern Iraq - where Uruk, an ancient city-state dating from the fourth- millennium B.C., lies - shows me letters requesting assistance that he has written ...
The Essence of Anthropology, William A. Haviland, Harald E. L. Prins, Dana Walrath, Bunny McBride, pp. 123, Cengage Learning, 2009, ISBN 978-0-495-59981-4, ... In the Mesopotamian city of Uruk in Iraq (which likely derives its modern country name from this ancient place), by 5,100 years ago a new writing technique emerged, in which writers used a reed stylus to make wedge-shaped markings ...
