Leonard Woolley’s discovery of intact Mesopotamian royal tombs dating back more than 4,000 years in the ancient city of Ur, located 140 miles southeast of Babylon in modern-day Iraq. The tombs ...

but it was dubbed the Royal Game of Ur after a British archaeologist named Sir Leonard Woolley uncovered five worn playing boards in 1928 at the Royal Cemetery of the Sumerian city of Ur.

Near the present-day city of Basra in Iraq, and about 12 kilometers southwest of the site of ancient Ur, is the site of Eridu (Eridug in Sumerian), the southernmost of all the great Mesopotamian ...

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

As Uruk’s power faded in the late third millennium B.C., another ancient Mesopotamian city rose in dominance. Ur (present-day Tell el-Muqayyar in Iraq), south of Uruk where the Tigris and ...

Babylon had a significant impact on Mesopotamia. One of its early rulers ... at a time when the city of Ur (in what is now southern Iraq) was the center of an empire, Babylon was a provincial ...

(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 ...

This watch collection delves into the core of Mesopotamian civilization, specifically spotlighting the ancient city of Ur, a significant source of inspiration for the brand. Further inspiration is ...

Writing itself in the form of cuneiform was invented in the storehouses of this Sumerian heartland ... Enheduanna would have led the religious rites at Ur, the city in present day Iraq from which the ...