Uruk, maybe the 1st metropolis, gets Berlin show

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Uruk, maybe the 1st metropolis, gets Berlin show

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/uruk-maybe-1st-metropolis-gets-berlin-show-120910880.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UO2BkflP678HovzzZuZCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/2146da25c4fdf30d2f0f6a7067000dd4.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="The upper part of a male foundation figure, 3000 - 2400 BC is displayed at the exhibition &quot;Uruk 5,000 Years of the Megacity&quot; at the Pergamon Museum Berlin, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Berlin’s Pergamon Museum is offering visitors a glimpse of perhaps the world’s first real metropolis in a new exhibition that traces the long history of Uruk, in present-day Iraq. The show marks a century of excavations at Uruk. But even now, organizers say that only about 4.5 percent of the sprawling site in the Iraqi desert has been explored. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)" align="left" title="The upper part of a male foundation figure, 3000 - 2400 BC is displayed at the exhibition &quot;Uruk 5,000 Years of the Megacity&quot; at the Pergamon Museum Berlin, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Berlin’s Pergamon Museum is offering visitors a glimpse of perhaps the world’s first real metropolis in a new exhibition that traces the long history of Uruk, in present-day Iraq. The show marks a century of excavations at Uruk. But even now, organizers say that only about 4.5 percent of the sprawling site in the Iraqi desert has been explored. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)" border="0" /></a>BERLIN (AP) â€" Berlin's Pergamon Museum is offering visitors a glimpse of perhaps the world's first real metropolis in a new exhibition that traces the long history of Uruk, in present-day Iraq.</p><br clear="all"/>

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