Excavations At Ur

First published in 2010. Sir Leonard Woolley was an archaeologist and this book is about his dig at Ur, which is the subject of this classic work, inspired Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia. When Woolley began work at Dr, little was known about the early civilizations of Mesopotamia. His work at Dr over twelve years, which included the excavation of royal tombs, the discovery of the gold jewellery of Queen PuAbi and the excavation of the famous ziggurat, allowed scholars to reconstruct the civilization of Sumer in the 3rd century B.C.

Author: Leonard Woolley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/19/2013
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780415847551

About the Author
Sir Leonard Woolley was an archaeologist.