It is one of the most famous Sumerian cities in ancient Iraq, in which housing continued from about 6000 years ago until the period prior to the Islamic era.

It is located 30 km east of the city of Samawah, and in the past, it was located on the Euphrates River before changing its course and moving about 12 km away from it. The city of Warka has gained a special importance among the cities of ancient Iraq, both scientifically and religiously, and this is confirmed by the thousands of discovered clay inscriptions, which date back to the beginning of the invention of writing about 5000 years ago. The religious importance of this city comes from being a center for the worship of the god Inanna (Ishtar), which is represented by the planet Venus.

Warka is famous for its walls, which cuneiform texts indicate that the first stages of building Warka were by the Sumerian King Gilgamesh, the owner of the famous legend, about 4700 years ago. You can see the city borders and the semi-circular wall that extends around it from about 9.5 kilometers.

The most important buildings that city contains is the ziggurat of the god Inanna (Ishtar), which rises today about 16 meters, with a square base and a side length of 60 meters. Near the ziggurat we can see the remains of temples, some of which were equipped with colored pottery cones. As for the ziggurat, its construction dates back to the time of King Urgo, about four thousand years ago.

One of the temples that you can see is the temple of (Anu), the god of the sky, built by bricks, and its history dates back to about 5000 years, and close to it is a large building for the god and his wife (Anu Antum), but it is from the Seleucid era, that is, about two thousand and two hundred years ago, there were found (5) soldiers with all their weapons who might have represented the royal guard or escorts. In the death chamber, approximately 23 skeletons of fully dressed women were found, as they were the queen’s escorts and bridesmaids. As for the tomb of King Abarki, which was adjacent to the tomb of Queen Borabi (Shebaad), who is believed to have been her husband, 3 skeletons were discovered in the mausoleum chamber, while 62 skeletons were discovered in the death chamber (53 men and 9 women), including 6 soldiers, with all their weapons as well as their luggage and vehicles. In front of this huge number of servants and courtiers and their burial in this way lies a very confusing mystery due to the lack of physical evidence or written sources alluding to such practices that remained a secret of the secrets of the ancient Iraqi civilization that has not yet been revealed. And in light of this, Woolley made his harsh statement in the media (News Cosmopolitan London), as he said that the scene of mass death in the pit is a (human sacrifice) for the king and queen of the cemetery. In his statement, he relied on the distribution and arrangement of the bodies in the pit (perhaps they drank a poisoned drink), in addition to that, he believed that the presence of servants and bridesmaids with the king and queen was an integral part of the burial rituals at the time, as it is believed that the kings of Ur were god kings.

Next to this tomb is another tomb belonging to the kings and princes of the third dynasty of Ur, and it belongs to the two kings (Shulki) and (Um-Sin), due to the presence of the inscription stamped on the faces of these tombs belonging to these two kings and characterized by their tiered roofs. However, at a distance from the aforementioned buildings, the visitor can tour around the residential neighborhood and see a large building unit that differs from others in its capacity, its large number of rooms and the number of its squares, made of mud and bricks, and according to all these landmarks, the building should be given great importance. Woolley mentioned that this building is a sacred place for a respected person in the city of Ur, which inspired others to associate it with the name (Ibrahim Al-Khalil), however, we do not have at the present time conclusive scientific evidence for naming the building by that name.