The site

Ur was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, at modern Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq, with roots reaching back to the Ubaid period around 3800 BCE. Its patron deity was the moon god Nanna, and the site is dominated by the partially restored Ziggurat of Ur, whose shrine was excavated in the 1930s. First recorded as a city-state in the 26th century BCE, this UNESCO World Heritage Site also holds a great necropolis and traces of Babylonian rebuilding.

Field notes

civilizations

SumerianBabylonian

types

City

built

3,800 BCE — 2,050 BCE

occupied

3,800 BCE — 500 BCE

country

Iraq