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  • This is an abbreviated rendition of the Flood story from the great Epic of Gilgamesh of the Babylonians.1 The epic tells about the adventures of King Gilgamesh from the city of Uruk Erech in Genesis 10:10, who is seeking eternal life.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • This is an abbreviated rendition of the Flood story from the great Epic of Gilgamesh of the Babylonians.1 The epic tells about the adventures of King Gilgamesh from the city of Uruk Erech in Genesis 10:10, who is seeking eternal life.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • This is an abbreviated rendition of the Flood story from the great Epic of Gilgamesh of the Babylonians.1 The epic tells about the adventures of King Gilgamesh from the city of Uruk Erech in Genesis 10:10, who is seeking eternal life.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • This is an abbreviated rendition of the Flood story from the great Epic of Gilgamesh of the Babylonians.1 The epic tells about the adventures of King Gilgamesh from the city of Uruk Erech in Genesis 10:10, who is seeking eternal life.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • Her holy city of Erech was known as "the town of the sacred courtesans."

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Her holy city of Erech was known as "the town of the sacred courtesans."

    Sense & Sensuality 2009

  • Back in the year 2280 BCE, Kudur-Nankhundi, king of Elam (southwest Persia), sacked the city of Erech in the kingdom of Ur (Mesopotamia).

    Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

  • Among other treasures the victor carried away from Erech to his capital city of Susa was the highly revered idol of the goddess Nania.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

  • The city was pillaged and trashed, but before that came to pass, the idol of Nania was preserved and restored to the temple of Erech.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

  • I suspect that long before the king of Elam stole her statue from the temple at Erech, traders and craftsmen from the Sindhu Valley were carrying the cult of Nania westward to Mesopotamia.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

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