At the end of their sixth season they had excavated 1850 burials and deemed 17 of them to be "Royal Tombs".
After some soundings were made in 1918 by Reginald Campbell Thompson, H.
Hall worked the site for one season for the British Museum in 1919, laying the groundwork for more extensive efforts to follow. Excavations from 1922 to 1934 were funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania and led by the archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.
These early levels were sealed off with a sterile deposit of soil that was interpreted by excavators of the 1920s as evidence for the Great Flood of the Book of Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh.
Ernest Benn Limited, 1920. ==External links== An exploration of the Royal Tombs of Ur, with a comprehensive selection of high-resolution photographs detailing the treasures found in the tombs Explore some of the Royal Tombs, Mesopotamia website from the British Museum Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur British Museum and Penn Museum Ur site – has field reports Jewish Encyclopedia: Ur Woolley’s Ur Revisited, Richard L.
Hall worked the site for one season for the British Museum in 1919, laying the groundwork for more extensive efforts to follow. Excavations from 1922 to 1934 were funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania and led by the archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.
Ur excavations IV: The Early Periods, Oxford University Press, 1927. * Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and Its Surroundings, Oxford University Press, 1927. * with M.E.L.
Mitchell): Ur Excavations VII: The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford University Press, 1927 * (ed.
Mitchell), Ur Excavations VIII: The Kassite Period, Oxford University Press, 1927 * with M.E.L.
Mitchell),: Ur Excavations IX: The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods, Oxford University Press, 1927 * Ur of the Chaldees: A record of seven years of excavation.
History and monuments of Ur, Chatto & Windus, 1929 (Dutton 1980 reprint: ). P.
UNUGKI, literally "the abode (UNUG) of Nanna". The site is marked by the partially restored ruins of the Ziggurat of Ur, which contained the shrine of Nanna, excavated in the 1930s.
Hall worked the site for one season for the British Museum in 1919, laying the groundwork for more extensive efforts to follow. Excavations from 1922 to 1934 were funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania and led by the archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.
Woolley had finished his work excavating the Royal Tombs of UR in 1934.
It fell around 1940 BC to the Elamites in the 24th regnal year of Ibbi-Sin, an event commemorated by the Lament for Ur. According to one estimate, Ur was the largest city in the world from c.
His code of laws, the Code of Ur-Nammu (a fragment was identified in Istanbul in 1952) is one of the oldest such documents known, preceding the Code of Hammurabi by 300 years.
22, pp. 32–50, 1960. Pardo Mata, Pilar, "Ur, ciudad de los sumerios".
1, pp. 24–40, 1977 J.
2030 to 1980 BC.
History and monuments of Ur, Chatto & Windus, 1929 (Dutton 1980 reprint: ). P.
1, pp. 1–18, 1984. P.R.S.
47, pp. 129–158, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1985 Susan Pollock, “Of Priestesses, Princes and Poor Relations: The Dead in the Royal Cemetery of Ur”, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol.
2, 1991 Licia Romano and Franco D'Agostino, "Abu Tbeirah Excavations I.
Cuenca: Alderaban, 2006.
Pottery debris and human remains form many of the walls of the royal tombs area. In May 2009, the United States Army returned the Ur site to the Iraqi authorities, who hope to develop it as a tourist destination. ===Preservation=== Since 2009, the non-profit organization Global Heritage Fund (GHF) has been working to protect and preserve Ur against the problems of erosion, neglect, inappropriate restoration, war and conflict.
At the Penn Museum the exhibition "Iraq's Ancient Past", which includes many of the most famous pieces from the Royal Tombs, opened to visitors in late Spring 2011.
The first updated survey in 2013 has produced a new aerial map derived by the flight of a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) operated in March 2014.
The first updated survey in 2013 has produced a new aerial map derived by the flight of a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) operated in March 2014.
London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Area 1: Last Phase and Building A – Phase 1", Sapienza Università Editrice, Jun 7, 2019, Woolley, Leonard.
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