Nice story. The problem is, I have no way to confirm it.
If you were do a little research on the Internet, like typing “Uruk, archaeology”, and read a bit, you will find bundle of information regarding to the history of this city.
That you will give more than enough information about the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Uruk.
Note that the “Chalcolithic” period is the time when they were using both stone and copper tools, and usually denote the second half of the Neolithic period, which started in the Near East (eg Egypt, Levant, what is now Iraq (Mesopotamia) and Iran (Elam and/or Persia), around 5000 BCE to around 3100 or 3050 BCE.
You need to understand that Uruk, is like Jericho, where people in prehistorical (Neolithic period) and ancient times, would often built newer settlement on top of older settlement.
Uruk has 18 datable layers of Uruk, the oldest settlement being Uruk XVIII, built around 5000 BCE. Jericho has over 20 layers, the oldest being 9500 BCE, which is roughly around the time when the Ice Age ended and the beginning of the Neolithic period.
Look up Uruk. Look up Jericho.
It is not merely a story. It is history with archaeological evidences of structures and objects that can be dated. Each layer at Uruk, have been dated. Temples at Uruk have been dated as early as 3600/3500 BCE, several centuries before people learn how to make bronze tools and weapons.
Noah, if he did exist, his ark and flood would have supposedly occurred around 2340 BCE, based on my calculation of Genesis, Exodus 12:40-41 and 1 Kings 6:1. The problem is that there were no major flood in Mesopotamia at that time, and Uruk have already existed a couple of thousands of years already.
No, 1213. Genesis 10 is wrong about Nimrod building Uruk, Babylon (or Babel, as some translations referred Babylon to), Akkad, Assur, Nineveh, etc.
Genesis claimed that Nimrod built the cities of Assur, Nineveh and Calah around the same time,except that these cities were actually began at different times. The evidences showed that Assur is dated to about 2600 BCE, while Calah is only about 1350 BCE. Nineveh is even older, at 6000 BCE, but didn’t become important until 3000 BCE.
Genesis 10 also stated that Egypt didn’t exist until Noah’s grandson Mizraim or Egypt was born, except that the first pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Djoser was built in Saqqara in early 27th century BCE, while the great pyramid of Khufu in Giza, was built built in early 26th century BCE.
Egyptian history actually predated these pyramids, as early as 4000 BCE, and Egyptian writings, hieroglyphs, were invented around 3100 BCE.
All these can be found if you can bother to look them up. I seriously don’t think understand that much about the history of the Near East.
