This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

MR. LEONARD WOOLLEY'S first report on the current season's work at Ur, which appeared in the Times for Feb. 12, chronicles inter alia the discovery of a burial of a type “quite out of the ...

What Woolley had uncovered was a strange new burial practice that had become the fashion in Ur just as it became what we might now recognize as a city-state: a dense settlement of people organized ...

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What Woolley had uncovered was a strange new burial practice that had become the fashion in Ur just as it became what we might now recognize as a city-state: a dense settlement of people organized ...