The ancient city of Ur

Ur was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in , . Although Ur was a coastal city near the mouth of the on the , the coastline has shifted and the site is now well inland, on the south bank of the , 16 km southwest of the city of .
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Protected area
  • Description: ancient Mesopotamian city-state
  • Also known as: “Ancient city of Ur”, “City of Ur”, “Tell al-Muqayyar”, and “Ur”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ziggurat of Ur and Ennigaldi-Nanna’s museum.

Archaeological site
Photo: Hardnfast, CC BY 3.0.
The is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of near , in present-day , . The structure was built during the Early Bronze Age by King Ur-Nammu of the Third Dynasty of Ur. is situated 240 metres northwest of The ancient city of Ur.

Ruins
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Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum is the earliest known public . It dates to circa 530 BCE. The curator was Ennigaldi, the daughter of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

Ruins
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The is an archaeological site in modern-day in southern . The initial excavations at took place between 1922 and 1934 under the direction of Leonard Woolley in association with the and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

The ancient city of Ur

Latitude
30.96159° or 30° 57′ 42″ north
Longitude
46.1052° or 46° 6′ 19″ east
Open location code
8H28X464+J3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 235546020
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q5699
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“The ancient city of Ur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ur”
  • Amharic: “ኡር”
  • Arabic: “أور”
  • Arabic: “مدينة اور الاثرية”
  • Armenian: “Ուր”
  • Asturian: “Ur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ur”
  • Bashkir: “Ур”
  • Basque: “Ur (hiria)”
  • Basque: “Ur”
  • Belarusian: “Ур”
  • Bengali: “উর”
  • Bosnian: “Ur”
  • Bulgarian: “Ур”
  • Catalan: “Ur”
  • Cebuano: “Ur (arkiyolohiyang dapit)”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئوور”
  • Chechen: “Ур”
  • Chinese: “乌尔”
  • Chinese: “吾珥”
  • Chinese: “烏爾”
  • Chinese: “烏爾城”
  • Chuvash: “Ур”
  • Croatian: “Ur”
  • Czech: “Ur (město)”
  • Czech: “Ur”
  • Danish: “Ur (oldtidsby)”
  • Danish: “Ur”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ur”
  • Dutch: “Oer (Soemer)”
  • Dutch: “Ur (Sumer)”
  • Dutch: “Ur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اور”
  • Esperanto: “Ur (urbo)”
  • Esperanto: “Ur”
  • Estonian: “Ur”
  • Finnish: “Ur”
  • French: “Ur (Mésopotamie)”
  • French: “Ur”
  • Galician: “Ur”
  • Georgian: “ური”
  • German: “Mugajjar”
  • German: “Mukaijar”
  • German: “Tell al-Mukaijar”
  • German: “Ur (Stadt)”
  • German: “Ur”
  • Greek: “Ουρ”
  • Hebrew: “אור”
  • Hindi: “उर, मेसोपोटामिया”
  • Hindi: “उर”
  • Hungarian: “Ur”
  • Icelandic: “Ur”
  • Indonesian: “Ur”
  • Irish: “Ur”
  • Italian: “Ur”
  • Japanese: “ᚢ”
  • Japanese: “ウル”
  • Japanese: “ウル遺跡”
  • Kannada: “ಉರ್”
  • Korean: “우르”
  • Kurdish: “Ur”
  • Latin: “Ur”
  • Latvian: “Ūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Ūras”
  • Macedonian: “Ур”
  • Malagasy: “Ora (tanana tamin’ny Andro Taloha)”
  • Malagasy: “Ora”
  • Malayalam: “ഉർ”
  • Malayalam: “ഊർ, മെസപ്പൊട്ടേമിയ”
  • Mingrelian: “ური”
  • Nepali: “उर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ur (Mesopotamia)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ur i Mesopotamia”
  • Norwegian: “Ur (Mesopotamia)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ur (vila)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ur”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܪ”
  • Papiamento: “Ur”
  • Persian: “اور”
  • Persian: “مزاحم”
  • Polish: “Tall al-Mukajjar”
  • Polish: “Ur (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Ur Chaldejskie”
  • Polish: “Ur”
  • Portuguese: “Ur”
  • Romanian: “Ur”
  • Russian: “Ур Халдейский”
  • Russian: “Ур”
  • Saraiki: “اُر”
  • Scots: “Ur”
  • Serbian: “Ур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ur”
  • Sinhala: “උඅර්”
  • Slovak: “Ur”
  • Slovenian: “Mukadžar”
  • Slovenian: “Ur”
  • Slovenian: “Urim”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اور”
  • Spanish: “Ur”
  • Swahili: “Ur”
  • Swedish: “Ur, Mesopotamien”
  • Swedish: “Ur”
  • Swiss German: “Ur (Stadt)”
  • Swiss German: “Ur”
  • Tagalog: “Ur”
  • Tajik: “Ур”
  • Tamil: “ஊர்”
  • Thai: “อูร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ur (Stadt)”
  • Turkish: “Ur (antik kent)”
  • Turkish: “Ur”
  • Ukrainian: “Ур”
  • Ukrainian: “Ура Халдейський”
  • Urdu: “اُر”
  • Vietnamese: “Ur (thành phố)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ur”
  • Welsh: “Ur”
  • Western Frisian: “Oer”
  • Western Panjabi: “آر”
  • Western Panjabi: “اُر”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏爾”

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