Abraham’s Ur: Did Woolley Excavate the Wrong Place? Molly Dewsnap Meinhardt, Biblical Archaeology Review (26:1), Jan/Feb 2000

Ruins of Ur. By M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA. – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3065765
The ruins of Ur are as lifeless today as Sir Leonard Woolley described them two years after his excavation of the site ended. But thanks to Woolley’s discoveries, we may conjure up a vivid picture of life at Ur. The British explorer uncovered not just scraps of plaster and shreds of gold, but entire vessels, headdresses and bull figurines made of the precious metal, ancient lyres, copper weapons and tools, silver bowls, a stunning assortment of jewelry made of imported lapis lazuli and carnelian, and more than 400 cylinder seals.
Read the rest of Abraham’s Ur: Did Woolley Excavate the Wrong Place? in the online Biblical Archaeology Society Library.
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