Leonard Woolley’s discovery of intact Mesopotamian royal tombs dating back more than 4,000 years in the ancient city of Ur, located 140 miles southeast of Babylon in modern-day Iraq. The tombs ...

The framework application that comes with AGON - Ancient Games Of Nations is a virtual ... found two of these game boards in the city of Ur. There is evidence that The Royal Game of Ur was the ...

BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) - The bell of a new church built near Iraq's ancient city of Ur chimed for the first time last week as part of a push to lure back pilgrims to a country that is home to ...

Ancient records suggest that more than 4,000 years ago, at a time when the city of Ur (in what is now southern Iraq) was the center of an empire, Babylon was a provincial administration center and ...

This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

Egypt may have the Pyramids of Giza, but Iraq has the Ziggurat of Ur – an incredibly well-preserved engineering achievement that towers over the ruins of an important ancient city. (This year ...

Scientists are still making new discoveries about ancient civilizations ... top to honor the patron god of a city. Though the base of the Great Ziggurat of Ur, made of 720,000, 33-pound baked ...

but the Ur game is simpler and can be more easily spread within a community than the SiS game." The latest study has the potential to reshape our understanding of ancient board games from the Near ...