Alexander the Great Temple Proclaiming Him Divine Unearthed In Iraq
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Alexander-the-Great-temple.jpg?itok=Q7QLBtCa"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Alexander-the-Great-temple.jpg?itok=Q7QLBtCa" width="610" height="408" alt="Archaeologists have discovered Alexander the Great’s Temple intertwining his legacy with Hercules and Sumerian god Ningirsu." /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>One of the last acts by Alexander the Great before dying at the tender age of 32 might have been dedicating a Greek temple to honor ancient gods and confirm his own divine status. This is according to archaeologists from the British Museum working in the ancient city of Girsu in southern Iraq who have unearthed a 4,000-year-old Sumerian temple. The later Greek inscriptions, extremely cryptic and tough to gauge, had made no sense to the archaeology team, until now.</p>
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<h2>Ancient City of Girsu Remembered</h2>
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Girsu, also known as Tiris, was an ancient Sumerian city located in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now modern-day?
Iraq. The city flourished during the Early Dynastic and Ur III periods of?
Sumerian? history, roughly between the 26th and 21st centuries BC. Girsu was a significant city of the Sumerian civilization, the first in the world, and played a crucial role in the development of early Mesopotamian culture.</p>
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