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Royal Cemetery at Ur
Vanished settlement · Iraq
- Abandoned
- 499 BC
- Founded
- 2999 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 30.962, 46.103
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: археологическое место в нынешней провинции Ди-Кар на юге Ирака
History
The Royal Cemetery at Ur is an archaeological site in modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq. The initial excavations at Ur took place between 1922 and 1934 under the direction of Leonard Woolley in association with the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.