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Excavations At Ur
Author(s): Sir Leonard Woolley (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 15 July 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 0710310498
- ISBN-13: 9780710310491
Book Description
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.
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Sir Leonard Woolley was an archaeologist.
