The discovery of the Royal Tombs, dating from about the 25th century BCE, showed that the area had luxury items made out of precious metals and semi-precious stones, which would have required importation. Its patron god was Nanna, the moon god, and the city’s name literally means “the abode of Nanna.”Ĭuneiform tablets show that Ur was, during the third millennium BCE, a highly centralized, wealthy, bureaucratic state. It was founded circa 3800 BCE, and was recorded in written history from the 26th century BCE. Ur was a major Sumerian city-state located in Mesopotamia, marked today by Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq. Wedge-shaped characters imprinted onto clay tablets, used in ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia. SumerianĪ group of non-Semitic people living in ancient Mesopotamia. ZigguratĪ rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. A Semitic emperor of the Akkadian Empire, known for conquering Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BCE.
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