1st Edition

Excavations At Ur

By Sir Leonard Woolley Copyright 2010
    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2010. Sir Leonard Woolley was an archaeologist and this book is about his dig at Ur, which is the subject of this classic work, inspired Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia. When Woolley began work at Dr, little was known about the early civilizations of Mesopotamia. His work at Dr over twelve years, which included the excavation of royal tombs, the discovery of the gold jewellery of Queen PuAbi and the excavation of the famous ziggurat, allowed scholars to reconstruct the civilization of Sumer in the 3rd century B.C.

    Introduction I. The Beginnings of Ur, and the Flood II. The Uruk and Jamdat Nasr Periods III. The Royal Cemetery IV. Al 'Ubaid and the First Dynasty of Ur V. The Dark Ages VI. The Third Dynasty of Ur VII. The Isin and Larsa Periods VIII. The Kassite and Assyrian Periods IX. Nebuchadnezzar II and the last days of Ur

    Biography

    Sir Leonard Woolley was an archaeologist.