"Uruk-hai" simply means "Orc-folk" in Black Tongue, which plays into unconfirmed suggestions that Saruman created them by crossing Orcs with Men. The Lord of the Rings ' Uruk-hai are often ...

Perhaps you, like me, have become a huge fan of Adar on The Rings of Power and, by extension, feel fondly toward his beloved children, the Uruk — derogatorily known as orcs. If so, then you’ve ...

The ziggurat of Uruk, situated in the Anu District, was a massive terrace raised multiple times to a final height of approximately 12 meters, with a top surface area of around 45 by 50 meters.

If Galadriel had acknowledged Uruk rights when Adar had asked her “And then what happens?” in episode six of The Rings of Power, do you think he might’ve agreed to the “Us” Alliance?

Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city of all humanity,” around 2700 B.C. to the murder of Iraq’s ...

Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine. Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife ...

Uruk, Ur, Meggido, Babylon, and Nineveh rose among the planet’s first major urban centers, thriving with palaces, temples, markets, and taverns serving fig wine.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy introduces viewers to several powerful fantasy characters, and these are the ones who are the mightiest.

Some viewers might immediately assume Adar’s Uruk is the same as the Uruk-hai featured in The Lord of the Rings movies, but the Uruk-hai are actually a later group, a different breed of Orcs ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power continues heat up as we race toward the Season 1 finale. This week clears up a long contested origin in the franchise.

Archaeologists call the earliest Sumerian phase the Uruk period, after the equally ancient city of Uruk about 50 miles (80 kilometers) to the southwest, where many of the oldest Sumerian artifacts ...