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| | Lagash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21) |
 | | It is represented by a rather low, long line of ruin mounds, now known as Tell al-Hiba in Iraq, northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk. |
 | | It is positioned on the dry bed of an ancient canal, some 3 miles (5 km) east of the Shatt-el-Haj, and a little less than 10 miles (16 km) north of the modern town of Shatra in the district administered from Nasiriyah. |
 | | Lagash ruins were discovered in 1877 by Ernest de Sarzec, at that time French consul at Basra, who was allowed, by the Montefich chief, Nasir Pasha, the first Wali-Pasha or governor-general of Basra, to excavate at his pleasure in the territories subject to that official. |
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