UR, the cradle of civilisation

UR was a large city and capital of the Sumarians next to the Euphrates 4200 years ago with numerous temples, palaces built in the third UR dynasty. It had two harbours connected to the Persian gulf, which today is hundreds of km away. Apparently, Abraham was born in UR.
The citiy's existence ended abruptly when a huge flood from the euphrates covered it in 4 meters of silt still visible today. In the "epics of Gilgamesh" this flood as the flood of Noah.
What was amazing, is that they knew bitumen and used it to build large buildings such as the Ziggurat which was a temple to the moon god Nannar. Unfortunately the realy interesting things found in royal graves are in London and Baghdad.もっと詳しく