Royal Cemetery at Ur

The Royal Cemetery at Ur 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.
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  • Type: Ruins
  • Description: archaeological place in the current province of Dhi Qar, in southern Iraq
  • Also known as: “Cimetiere royal d’Ur”, “Cimetière royal d’ur”, “Cimetière royal d’Ur”, “Cimetière Royal D’Ur”, “Groby Królewskie w Ur”, “Königsfriedhof von Ur”, “ウル王墓”, and “烏爾皇陵”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ur and Ziggurat of Ur.

Protected area
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was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in , . Although 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 . is situated 130 metres west of Royal Cemetery at Ur.

Archaeological site
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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 330 metres northwest of Royal Cemetery at 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. is situated 120 metres west of Royal Cemetery at Ur.

Royal Cemetery at Ur

Latitude
30.96139° or 30° 57′ 41″ north
Longitude
46.10618° or 46° 6′ 22″ east
Open location code
8H28X464+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 881928490
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q1796355
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Royal Cemetery at Ur” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المقبرة الملكية في أور”
  • Arabic: “المقبرة الملكية”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ur hökmdar qəbiristanlığı”
  • Catalan: “Tombes reials d’Ur”
  • Chinese: “烏爾皇家公墓”
  • Dutch: “koningsgraven van Ur”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝa tombejo de Ur”
  • French: “cimetière royal d’Ur”
  • French: “Cimetière royal”
  • French: “Tombes royales d’Ur”
  • German: “Königsgräber von Ur”
  • Hungarian: “Királyi temető Ur mellett”
  • Italian: “cimitero reale di Ur”
  • Italian: “Cimitero reale di Ur”
  • Japanese: “ウルの王墓”
  • Korean: “우르의 왕릉”
  • Persian: “گورستان شاهی اور”
  • Polish: “Groby Królewskie z Ur”
  • Romanian: “Cimitirul Regal din Ur”
  • Russian: “Царское кладбище Ура”
  • Spanish: “Cementerio Real de Ur”
  • Turkish: “Ur Kraliyet Mezarlığı”

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