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 ...

A new church complex has been built near the ancient city of Ur, in Iraq, in an effort to draw attention to the long history of the country's beleaguered Christian community. The building of the ...

From 1851 to 1861 he traveled around southern Iraq investigating sites including Tell el Muqayyar, which includes remains of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur. Eridu was a foundational city in ...

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 ...

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 ...