Volume 40 / Number 2

1998

Special Edition: The World of Ur

On The Cover: The great bull-headed lyre from Ur. Collection Object Number: B17694B UPM Neg. T4-480.

Vol. 40 / No. 2

By: Lee Horne

Ur and Its Treasures: The Royal Tombs

Alder Sumer lay in lower Mesopotamia, an arid land broken by belts of green along the banks of its canals […]

Vol. 40 / No. 2

By: Anne Draffkorn Kilmer

The nearly half million cuneiform tablets excavated from ancient Near Eastern sites provide us with ample evidence for the uses […]

Vol. 40 / No. 2

By: Maude de Schauensee

Stringed instruments have probably been around since the first time someone stretched a gut, rawhide, or fiber string over a […]

Vol. 40 / No. 2

By: Edward Ochsenschlager

In 1968, archaeologists digging at the mound of Al-Hiba in Iraq were struck by the fact that the people living […]

Vol. 40 / No. 2

By: Steve Tinney

Besides the justly famous treasures of the so-called Royal Cemetery, the site of Ur also yielded up to its excavators […]

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By: Yelena Rakic

In 1928 Sir Leonard Woolley unearthed a find that has been described by some as the most beautiful object […]

Vol. 40 / No. 2

By: Tamsen Fuller

PHOTO 1. The “Ram” as it was before the new work began in May 1997. As conservators and curators discovered, […]

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By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s collection of materials from the excavations in the Royal Cemetery at […]

Vol. 40 / No. 2

By: Helen Schenck

Few sites possess the lure and mystique of the ancient Near Eastern mound of Ur, with its imposing ziggurat and […]