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Of all these earliest Mesopotamian cities, the most famous was Ur. So it's not surprising that it was at Ur that the great archaeologist Leonard Woolley chose to carry out his excavations in the ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

The archaeological cities of Uruk and Ur and the Tell Eridu archaeological site form part of the remains of the Sumerian cities and settlements that developed in southern Mesopotamia between the 4th ...

This musical instrument was found in the 1920s by British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley during excavations at the Royal Cemetery at Ur, an ancient city in Mesopotamia that is now part of Iraq.

Of all these earliest Mesopotamian cities, the most famous was Ur. So it's not surprising that it was at Ur that the great archaeologist Leonard Woolley chose to carry out his excavations in the ...