Habuba Kabira was the name given to an Uruk settlement populated by the south Mesopotamians, which flourished in the second half of the fourth millennium BC. This city was located on the right bank of the middle Euphrates and it consisted of about twenty residences of various sizes and a central monumental complex formed by two temples. The Uruk civilisation, together with the later Jemdet Nasr civilisation, was home of the very first written texts.
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