What is Uruk famous for?
In myth and literature, Uruk was famous as the capital city of Gilgamesh, hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Scholars identify Uruk as the biblical Erech (Genesis 10:10), the second city founded by Nimrod in Shinar. What were some of the characteristics of Uruk? The First City Between approximately 3600 and 2600 BCE, the people…