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A major southern Mesopotamian city in Sumer — possibly the Ellasar of Genesis 14 whose king joined the eastern coalition against Sodom
MesopotamiaHistorically Verified
Tell Senkereh ruins in southern Iraq, Sumerian city continuously occupied for over two millennia
Larsa was one of the great Sumerian city-states, a center of sun-god Shamash worship, with major archaeological remains at modern Tell Senkereh in southern Iraq. Many scholars associate it with the Ellasar of Genesis 14:1-9, whose king Arioch joined Chedorlaomer's coalition that captured Lot from Sodom and was then defeated by Abraham. The city flourished from the early third millennium BC until its fall to Hammurabi of Babylon around 1763 BC.
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