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- Ur was the first archaeological site to be excavated under a permit from the Department of Antiquities of the new nation of Iraq. As such, its artifacts became the first major group to be accessioned when the Iraq National Museum was created.
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Major excavations of Ur, however, did not occur until the 20th century. The most extensive lasted from 1922-1934, when Sir Leonard Woolley headed a dig under the auspices of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum to Mesopotamia.
Mar 29, 2013 · While the site was initially excavated in the 1850s, Sir Leonard Woolley’s well-publicized 20th-century excavations exposed valuable artifacts and thousands of years of the Sumerian city-state’s history, spurring on associations with Abraham’s birthplace, the Biblical Ur of the Chaldees (see discussion below).
- Chronology of Southern Mesopotamia
- Living in Sumerian Ur
- Royal Cemetery
- Archaeology at The City of Ur
The following chronology of Southern Mesopotamia is simplified somewhat from that suggested by the School of American Research Advanced Seminar in 2001, based primarily on pottery and other artifact styles and reported in Ur 2010. 1. Old Babylonian (Late Bronze Age, 1800-1600 BC) 2. Isin-Larsa Dynasties (Middle Bronze Age, 2000-1800 BC) 3. Ur III (...
During Ur's heyday in the Early Dynastic period, four main residential areas of the city included homes made of baked mud brick foundations arranged along long, narrow, winding streets and alleyways. Typical houses included an open central courtyard with two or more main living rooms in which the families resided. Each house had a domestic chapel w...
Between 1926 and 1931, Woolley's investigations at Ur focused on the Royal Cemetery, where he eventually excavated approximately 2,100 graves, within an area of 70x55 m (230x180 ft): Woolley estimated there were up to three times as many burials originally. Of those, 660 were determined to be dated to the Early Dynastic IIIA (2600-2450 BC)period, a...
Archaeologists associated with Ur included J.E. Taylor, H.C. Rawlinson, Reginald Campbell Thompson, and, most importantly, C. Leonard Woolley. Woolley's investigations of Ur lasted 12 years from 1922 and 1934, including five years focusing on the Royal Cemetery of Ur, including the graves of Queen Puabi and King Meskalamdug. One of his primary assi...
Sir Leonard Woolley, renowned as the excavator of “Ur of the Chaldees,” was no stranger to publicity. Through best-selling books, popular magazine articles and extensive newspaper interviews, Woolley painstakingly translated the results of his Near Eastern archaeological investigations into a language accessible to the public, winning ...
In 1862, Henry Rawlinson identified Ur Kaśdim with Tell el-Muqayyar near Nasiriyah in the Baghdad Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire (now in Iraq ). [1] In 1927, Leonard Woolley excavated the site and identified it as a Sumerian archaeological site where the Chaldeans were to settle around the 9th century BC. [2]
UR OF THE CHALDEES ( א֥וּר כַּשְׂדִּֽים, Gr. χῶρα ( τῶν) Χαλδάιον ). City in Mesopotamia from which Abraham migrated to Haran ( Gen 11:28, 31; 15:7; Neh 9:7 ). 1. Name and location.
