Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Abraham the Patriarch, was made the base for aeroplane operations of the British Air Force in the move to ward off the attack of the Wahabis on Iraq, Koweit and ...

New evidence placing I an extraordinary antiquity on the civilization of Ur of the Chaldees on the Euphrates in lower Mesopotamia has been found by excavators of the Pennsylvania. Museum and of the ...

Excavations at Ur of The Chaldees have led to the discovery of the site of the place of Dungi, who reigned 2,250 years before Christ. It was already the custom, as it is to-day, to bury, in the ...

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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 ...

IN 1919 Dr. H. R. Hall, on behalf of the British Museum, spent three months excavating at Ur. Last summer the British Museum and the University Museum of Philadelphia decided to send out a joint ...