The cemetery at Ur included slightly more than 2000 burials. Amongst these burials were sixteen tombs identified by Woolley as "royal" tombs based on their size and structure, variety and richness of grave goods, as well as the existence of artifacts associated with mass ritual. [3]

2011年9月3日 · The Royal Tombs of Ur assessed The richness of the tombs and the grotesque funerary ritual represented by them shed a sharp new light on the origins of civilisation in Ancient Mesopotamia.

By the time of the Early Dynastic III royal tombs at Ur in the middle of the third millennium B.C. political power was exer­cised in the city-god’s name by a man, known in Ur as the `Iugal’, who in modern terms combined the offices of chief priest, justiciar, war leader and prime minister.

2025年2月13日 · Among its greatest archaeological discoveries are the Royal Tombs of Ur, which date back to the Early Dynastic Period (c. 2600–2400 BCE). These tombs provide invaluable insights into Sumerian burial practices, social hierarchies, and religious beliefs.

2019年7月3日 · A collection of artifacts from C. Leonard Woolley's excavations of the Royal Cemetery at Ur, and the collection at the University of Pennsylvania.

2024年9月7日 · Excavations in the 1920s by British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley unearthed an extraordinary necropolis of royal graves, giving us a glimpse into the wealth, rituals, and power dynamics of ancient Sumer. The tombs at Ur revealed …

2017年1月1日 · The Royal Tombs of Ur is a 4,800-year-old Sumerian burial site of around 2,000 graves located in the ancient city of Ur in southern Mesopotamia (in the south of modern day Iraq).

The Standard of Ur: Perhaps the most iconic artifact from the Royal Tombs is the Standard of Ur. It was found in one of the larger gravesites (PG 779) next to the body of a soldier. Leonard Woolley called it a standard because he thought it was carried aloft on a …

The Ur excavations are a remarkable story, and Woolley’s prize find, the Early Dynastic Royal Cemetery, is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. In the late 1920s, Woolley uncovered a cemetery with as many as 2000 burials spread over …

The artifacts from the Royal Tombs of Ur give us a complete picture of ancient Sumerian art and civilization. With the notable exception of the Egyptian tomb of Tutankhamen, no other archaeological discovery gives us a better understanding of ancient life and culture.