Biblical city
Ur
Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq · Southern Mesopotamia
A major Sumerian city on the lower Euphrates, Ur is named as Abraham's point of departure (Genesis 11:31). Excavations uncovered its great ziggurat and the royal cemetery with its rich third-millennium burials.
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