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The Royal Cemetery in Baghdad, Iraq, is the site of the royal mausoleum where the Iraqi Royal Family is buried. Also known as the Royal Mausoleum, it was designed by the British architect John Brian Cooper and was built between 1934 and 1936 in the style of Islamic architecture.
The Royal Cemetery at Ur is an archaeological site in modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq.The initial excavations at Ur took place between 1922 and 1934 under the direction of Leonard Woolley in association with the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
The Lyres of Ur or Harps of Ur is a group of four string instruments excavated in a fragmentary condition at the Royal Cemetery at Ur in Iraq from 1922 onwards. They date back to the Early Dynastic III Period of Mesopotamia, between about 2550 and 2450 BC, making them the world's oldest surviving stringed instruments. [1]
The tomb of Meskalamdug, PG 755, discovered by English archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley in the Royal Cemetery of Ur in 1924, contained numerous gold artifacts including a golden helmet with an inscription of the king's name. [23] By observing the contents of this royal grave, it is made clear that this ancient civilization was quite wealthy.
Iraqi Royal Cemetery; R. Raghadan Palace This page was last edited on 19 February 2022, at 10:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The lyre was excavated in the Royal Cemetery at Ur during the 1926–1927 season of an archeological dig carried out in what is now Iraq jointly by the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum. Leonard Woolley led the excavations. The lyre was found in “The King’s Grave”, near the bodies of more than sixty soldiers and attendants ...
Pages in category "Cemeteries in Iraq" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Iraqi Royal Cemetery; M. Martyrs' Cemetery; Mass graves in Iraq; R.
Tomb of Rustam Haidar in the Iraqi Royal Cemetery in Baghdad. Haidar was targeted by other leading politicians for his faith. [11] On January 18, 1940, at around 11 AM before noon, Haidar was sitting in his office when a dismissed police commissioner named Hussein Fawzi Tawfiq ran into the office and confronted Haidar.