Lugalzaggisi's inscriptions are in harmony with the Biblical statement to the effect that the Semites came from the North, and it is possible that the origin of the race may be hopefully looked for in or near Armenia.
Lugalzaggisi made the Erech of Gen. x :to the capital of his newly conquered world, and he, a Semite, adopted the Sumerian pantheon and brought his offerings to their gods. He re corded his achievements on vases of stone and placed them in the temple of Bel, where they probably remained intact until the great Elamitic raid, when (if not before) they were crushed into the fragments which were found, recon structed and deciphered by Professor Hilprecht.
After the death of Lugalzaggisi the national spirit of the Sumerians began to reassert itself. Uru-kagina was one of its rulers, and he devoted his time and resources largely to the building of temples, but he and his successors fortified the city of Shirpula.
After a time the Sumerians felt strong enough to throw off the Semitic yoke, so they rebelled and won their old supremacy over Babylonia. Erech
remained the capital, but the newer dynasties moved over to "Ur of the Chaldees," spoken of in Genesis as the home of Abraham. There was. yet another conquest, for the Semites again over ran Babylonia, and then came a period of which little is known.
The long period to which these inscriptions belong, Professor Hilprecht says, is represented by about thirty feet of debris beneath the plat forms built by Sargon and Naram-Sin. This debris contains pottery, drains, sacrificial vases, altars, keystone arches and other important rel ics of antiquity, but there is no data concerning the time which it covers.
The results of these excavations give us a view of the civilization which preceded Abraham, and they show also that the book of Genesis is an epitome of history, as the most ancient cities which have been uncovered are those which arc mentioned in Genesis, and they have been found in the very locality where the Biblical writer says they were placed.