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Entertainment News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Uruk, maybe the 1st metropolis, gets Berlin show

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Uruk, maybe the 1st metropolis, gets Berlin show
Apr 24th 2013, 12:10

The upper part of a male foundation figure, 3000 - 2400 BC is displayed at the exhibition "Uruk 5,000 Years of the Megacity" at the Pergamon Museum Berlin, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Berlin's Pergamon Museum is offering visitors a glimpse of perhaps the world's first real metropolis in a new exhibition that traces the long history of Uruk, in present-day Iraq. The show marks a century of excavations at Uruk. But even now, organizers say that only about 4.5 percent of the sprawling site in the Iraqi desert has been explored. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)BERLIN (AP) — Berlin's Pergamon Museum is offering visitors a glimpse of perhaps the world's first real metropolis, in a new exhibition that traces the long history of Uruk, in present-day Iraq.


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