By John Lee. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al-Sudani visited the historic Ur Tourist City in Dhi Qar Province on Sunday, ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Think Karens and Yelp complaints are a relatively new thing? This ancient discovery proves humans have always loved to ...

Eridu, Ur, and Uruk were key cities that helped shape history. They made big contributions to cities, trade, and culture.

(The city-state of Ur emerged as an important center of commerce and Sumerian culture circa 2700 b.c.) The prize piece is the Standard of Ur (below), a trapezoidal box, 18-1/2 inches long by 8 ...

Criterion (iii): The remains of the Mesopotamian cities of Uruk, Ur and Eridu offer an outstanding testimony ... works and structures in the form of ziggurats, temples, palaces, city walls, and ...

Ur, sent a clay tablet containing a complaint ... and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods.

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 ...

.- Pope Francis stands with religious leaders during an interreligious meeting near the archaeological area of the Sumerian ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so ... During 20th century excavations of the city of Ur (in modern-day Iraq), this clay tablet was found alongside multiple others ...

$35.00 (cloth). A five-year 3.78 percent loan between two businessmen in 1796 may not seem remarkable, but it turns out that’s 1796 BCE, and the businessmen lived in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur.

The Royal Game of Ur is a 5000-year old Mesopotamian strategy board game ... found two of these game boards in the city of Ur. There is evidence that The Royal Game of Ur was the most popular ...