Archaeologist Leonard Woolley made amazing discoveries during his life, he directed with T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) the excavations of Carchemish, he found the statue-biography of King Idrimi, and the geological evidence of the flood told in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Woolley is most renowned for his excavations in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur […]
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Luxury Mansion of a 4,000-year-old Priest, with Bathroom and Toilet, Uncovered at Ur
Ur is one of the oldest cities in the world. What was life like for its inhabitants about 4000 years ago? A team led by Adelheid Otto, director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Near East at LMU (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich), is conducting excavations in Ur that may provide some answers to this […]
