Pope to visit ancient city of Ur, ‘the cradle of civilization’ Francis expected to visit the southern Iraqi city of Ur on Saturday, where the father of all three Abrahamic faiths is believed ...

Play online or offline vs friends or AI as ancient god and express your anger or delight as you gain emotion points. Ur Game is a re-creation of The Royal Game of Ur, ancient game that is now ...

Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most important ancient cities.

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More ...

Field Map (Image credit: Photo of Penn Museum archival map.) Pit F and the burial that held the 6,500-year-old skeleton shown here in a field map of the Ur site in Iraq.

The coastal city of Ur, now Tell el-Muqayyar in Nasiriya, Iraq, was founded about 5800 years ago. Ur is first mentioned in the 26th century BCE, with Mesannepada as its first recorded king.

Archaeologists have unearthed complex near ancient city or Ur in southern Iraq.

In ancient Ur, birthplace of Abraham, pope urges peace among monotheistic faiths Sacred city in cradle of civilization served region’s peoples for thousands of years, but has gone largely ...

The bell of a new church built near Iraq's ancient city of Ur chimed for the first time last week as part of a push to lure back pilgrims to a country that is home to one of the world's oldest ...

Investigating Canals Across Time, From Space: Ur Takes A Step Back To See Ancient Networks Date: April 11, 2006 Source: Harvard University Summary: The view from space of an ancient canal network ...

A British archaeologist says he and his colleagues have unearthed a huge, rare complex near the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq, home of the biblical Abraham.