While civilization dates back tens of thousands of years, these are some of the earliest known (and confirmed) rulers.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In recent decades the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods of the fourth millennium B.C. in Mesopotamia have been the subject of considerable research ...

The creatures of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings possess a bewildering variety of names and terms, which can cause confusion. Orcs and Uruk-hai, for example, are essentially the same species, ...