He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Well, it’ll be history. The civilisation weakened when city rulers began fighting with each other. Flooding meant that crops weren't growing as well. Cities began to struggle. In the end, Sumer ...

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Sebastien Rey highlighted that, as with many mudbrick structures of Mesopotamia, the palace of Girsu was rebuilt or wholly reconstructed several times throughout its history. This pattern of ...