A new church complex has been built near the ancient city of Ur, in Iraq, in an effort to draw attention to the long history of the country's beleaguered Christian community. The building of the ...

This is the first piece in the AGON – Ancient Games of Nations series, a collection of amazing traditional board games for iPad. About the history of The Royal Game of Ur: In the 1920s ...

MR. WOOLLEY'S brief but compendious account of the excavations at Ur during the seven seasons in which he has been in charge of the joint expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the ...

Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most important ancient cities. Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative ...

Woolley is most renowned for his excavations in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur between 1922 and ... stating in his famous work “Ur of the Chaldees” that the room was an antiquities museum maintained ...

This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

The original name of this ancient game has been lost to time, but it was dubbed the Royal Game of Ur after a British archaeologist named Sir Leonard Woolley uncovered five worn playing boards in ...

The ancient pagan religion of Babylonia managed ... Harran was also visited by Abraham on his way from Ur of the Chaldees to the land of Canaan. Harran’s fortunes rose and fell with shifts ...