2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than 100,000 clay cuneiform tablets, many ...

Sumerian cuneiform spread across much of the Bronze ... the 21st century B.C., in a period historians call the Third Dynasty of Ur. Its founder, Ur-Nammu, was a great general, reformer, and ...

This structure was a stepped pyramid, erected during the third dynasty of Ur, around 2000 B.C. Archaeologists ... quality been found at a Sumerian site. Cuneiform inscriptions found on some ...

In On the Third Dynasty of Ur: Studies in honor of Marcel Sigrist, edited by Piotr Michalowski, 201–16. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research. Taylor, Jonathan 2011 “Tablets as artefacts, ...

LEONARD WOOLLEY'S first report on the current season's work at Ur, which appeared in the Times ... on which stands the famous ziggurat of the Third Dynasty. In the first month's work the complete ...

Numerous cuneiform tablets relate tales ... after the fall of the Akkadian empire in 2159 b.c.—and to the Third Dynasty of Ur, which conquered Lagash and other cities around 2080 b.c. Gudea ...

In about 2,000 BC they contributed to the overthrow of the dominant Third Dynasty of Ur, and established a series of small kingdoms all over Mesopotamia. Under King Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC), the ...

The texts upon them form public accounts and lists of revenue and produce which were drawn up for the public “record office” of the kings of the second dynasty of the city of Ur, about B.C ...

WASHINGTON The unlikely journey of 362 cuneiform clay tablets and plaques ... Scholars, Mr. Studevent-Hickman said, know that during the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III (the Sumerian Renaissance ...