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  • » View of the “Stone-Cone building” with surrounding walls.
  • » Technical illustration showing the interior organisation of the building and its assumed installations.
  • » Parts of the enclosure wall were also decorated with mosaic cones.
  • » This infographic shows the total amount and type of building material that was used in the construction of the “Stone-Cone Building”.

(Re-)Constructing the Stone-Cone Building

By On 2000-01-27 With No Comments

About the project Uruk/Warka, situated in modern-day Iraq, is one of the first cities in the world and was populated almost without interruption for over 5,000 years – from the 4th millennium BCE to the 1st millennium AD. Uruk is famous for the invention of cuneiform writing at the end of the 4th millennium, the […]

  • » Overview of Archtectural Layer 8 on the archaeological ground-plan. Building H is on the left, building G in the center and building F on the right side.
  • » Sliced infographic of building F and adjacent rooms. Stairs, doors and fire-places are visible here.
  • » Central building G, the highest structure of this layer. On the roof in the foreground you can see the exit of one of two staircases.

Architectural Layer 8

By On 2000-01-17 With No Comments

About the project Uruk/Warka, situated in modern-day Iraq, is one of the first cities in the world, and was populated almost without interruption for over 5,000 years – from the 4th millennium BCE to the 1st millennium CE. Uruk is famous for the invention of cuneiform writing at the end of the 4th millennium, the […]

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