Ur

Benjamin W. Porter

Located in modern southern Iraq, the ancient site of Ur (Arabic: Tall el-Muqayyar) grew from a modest agricultural village to one of the most important cities of Mesopotamian civilization. Popularly known as the birthplace of Abraham, the Biblical patriarch (Genesis 11:28–31), Ur remained an important economic and religious center from the fifth millennium to the first millennium BCE. Although several archaeologists had worked there briefly before him, the excavations of British archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley, between 1922 and 1934, produced the bulk of our knowledge on ancient Ur. Woolley's deep soundings revealed that a 25-acre city was ...

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