Science at FMNH : Ep. 35 - Exploring Kish

The ancient city of Kish was occupied from at least as early as 3200 B.C. through the 7th century A.D. Located on the floodplain of the Euphrates River eighty kilometers south of modern Baghdad, the city held an extraordinary position during the formative periods of Mesopotamian history.

From 1923 through 1933, joint archaeological expeditions of The Field Museum of Natural History and Oxford University explored many of the twenty-four-square-kilometer site's forty mounds, uncovering significant evidence of Kish's extremely early urbanization and its prominence as a dominant regional polity.

Related videos:

• Ep. 36 – Discovering Early European Societies
• Ep. 37 – Roles of Households in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
• Ep. 38 – Urbanism in Eastern Africa

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• The Kish Collection
• Anthropology, Europe and the Near East
• The Anthropology Department
• Photo Archives

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