AI overview
Ur was one of the most important cities in ancient Mesopotamia, located in what is now southern Iraq near the Euphrates River, and it served as a significant city-state beginning around the 26th century BC. The site, now called Tell el-Muqayyar, was originally situated on the coast of the Persian Gulf, though changes in the coastline have left it inland today.
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Ur
- Ancient site.map_type
- Iraq#Near East#West Asia
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.map_dot_label
- Ur
- Ancient site.location
- Tell el-Muqayyar, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq
- Ancient site.region
- Mesopotamia, Middle East
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.abandoned
- After 500 BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Ubaid period to Iron Age
- Ancient site.cultures
- Sumerian
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1853–1854, 1922–1934, 2015-present
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- John George Taylor, Charles Leonard Woolley, Elizabeth C Stone, Paul Zimansky, Adelheid Otto
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