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(lā`găsh) or


(shĭrpo͝or`lə), ancient city of SumerSumer
and Sumerian civilization
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Entre estos acuerdos se encuentran el tratado "Eannatum Rey de Lagash en Mesopotamia y Umma en el ano 3100 a.
Like the people of Lagash in Isaac Asimov's sci-fi story Nightfall, there is no guarantee that our technology can replace the profound perspective that the stars offer our species.
Although the statue of King Entemena of Lagash (left) was found and returned to the Government of Iraq in 2006, some 7,000 to 10,000 artifacts remain missing.
de C, y fueron encontrados en lo que hoy es Irak, en la ciudad-estado de Lagash. Estos primeros impuestos se concentraban en la propiedad y en el valor de la produccion obtenida de ella.
The earliest recorded treaty in human history, between the city states of Lagash and Umma in Mesopotamia, in about 3100 B.C., (19) confirms their settlement of a dispute concerning shared water resources.
Among the best is a commandingly still Egyptian baboon (c.1350BC), the sinuously sensual Sanchi Torso from India (c.900AD), the poignant portrait of Gudea, king of Lagash, Mesopotamia (c.2130) and some Assyrian reliefs.
He added that the boxes included priceless pieces of history, such as a 4,400 year old statue of King Entemena of Lagash looted from the National Museum after the US invasion in 2003, and 362 Cuneiform (earliest known writing system in the world) clay tablets smuggled out of Iraq before the US invasion, and were seized by US authorities in 2001.
(30) Protohistorical genealogies (the Sumerian and Lagash king lists, for example) were a popular and largely fictional literary device in the ancient Near East for asserting a people's cultural importance or a dynasty's political legitimacy.
Eles construiram ali as primeiras grandes cidades da civilizacao humana, como Ur, Uruk e Lagash (Oppenheim, 1964).