There is a Sound Series, Dead Sea Scrolls: Ur, Foundation of the city

Shidonna Raven
Oct 9
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By Leonard Woolley

Fact Checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated: Jun 9, 2025

Source: Britannica

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Ur

ancient city, Iraq

Also known as: Tall al-Mughair, Tall al-Muqayyar, Tell el-Muqayyar, Ur Kasdim, Ur of the Chaldeans

Foundation of the city

At some time in the 4th millennium BCE, the city was founded by settlers thought to have been from northern Mesopotamia, farmers still in the Chalcolithic phase of culture. There is evidence that their occupation was ended by a flood, formerly thought to be the one described in Genesis. From the succeeding “Jamdat Nasr” (Late Protoliterate) phase, a large cemetery produced valuable remains allied to more sensational discoveries made at Erech.

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