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Another possible location for Ur of the Chaldees (Ur Kasdim) is the ancient Assyrian and Seleucid city Edessa, now called Şanlıurfa. According to some Jewish traditions, this is the site where Abraham was cast into a furnace by Nimrod as punishment for his monotheistic beliefs, but miraculously escaped unscathed. [22]
The biblical Ur is mentioned four times in the Torah or Hebrew Bible (Tanakh in Hebrew), with the distinction "of the Kasdim/Kasdin"—traditionally rendered in English as "Ur of the Chaldees". The Chaldeans had settled in the vicinity by around 850 BC, but were not extant anywhere in Mesopotamia during the 2nd millennium BC period when Abraham ...
The museum was discovered in 1925, when archaeologist Leonard Woolley excavated portions of the palace and temple complex at Ur. [5] He found dozens of artifacts, neatly arranged side by side, whose ages varied by centuries.
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A French-Saudi research team unearthed the 4,000-year-old hidden town named al-Natah within the walled oasis of Khaybar, a fertile land surrounded by desert in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula.
Lumea Noua (near Alba Iulia) – middle Neolithic to Chalcolithic; Măgura Uroiului; Napoca (Cluj-Napoca) – Dacian, Roman; Noviodunum ad Istrum – Roman; Peștera cu Oase – the oldest early modern human remains in Europe; Porolissum (near Zalău) – Roman; Potaissa (Turda) – Roman; Sarmizegetusa Regia – Dacian capital
The symbolism of prestige : an archaeological example from the royal cemetery of Ur. Michigan. Woolley, C.L. (1934). Ur Excavations II: The Royal Cemetery. London and Philadelphia. Zettler, R.L and Horne, L (eds.). (1998). Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Katharine Woolley was an archaeologist, like her husband, and shared with him the work of excavation at Ur of the Chaldees, at Al Mina, on the North Syrian coast, and at Atchana (Alalakh), in the Hatay, until the outbreak of war. She was jointly responsible with him for the report published in 1939 on the Archaeological Survey of India.