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🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Ur III / Isin-Larsa · Sumerian
E-mah ziggurat of Ninhursag at Adab (Tell Bismaya) — 50 m square platform c.2600 BCE, place of the Indiana-Jones-associated Banks 1903–04 excavations.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid to Ur III (c.5500–2000 BCE; temple sequence defines Chalcolithic Eridu–Ubaid horizon) · Ubaid → Uruk → Early Dynastic → Ur III
Type-site of Ubaid period — 1919 Ninhursag temple with copper bulls gave Chalcolithic its name.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Late Uruk to Old Babylonian (c.3300–1700 BCE; peak ED IIIa and Ur III 2600–2000 BCE) · Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Early Dynastic → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Pre-Sargonic scribal city of Ninhursag with earliest school tablets and ED drainage galleries.