Uruk (URUUNUG, Sumerian: unug; Akkadian: uruk Greek: Orchoë), from the Akkadian rendering of the Sumerian toponym 'unug','s modern Warka (Arabic: ), Al Muthanna Governorate, Iraq. Uruk was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the ancient Nil canal, some 30 km east of As-Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq. The modern name Iraq's thought to be derived from the name Uruk. At its height c 2900 BCE, Uruk probably had 50,000–… (More on Uruk)