Coorinates: 30°57′45″N, 46°06′11″E

Trivia about ur

  • Mesannepadda & Aannepadda were 2 early rulers of this 2-letter Sumerian city
  • Job lived in Uz; Abraham lived in this city of the Chaldees
  • Sir Leonard Woolley is known for his excavations of this Sumerian city with a very short name
  • Shulgi, an important ruler of this place's 3rd Dynasty, was in & out of office way before Abraham lived & left there
  • In 1922 the remains of this 2-lettered Sumerian city & its cemetery were unearthed
  • Herdin' some sheep with Abraham in this Sumerian city with a 2-letter name
  • As Schliemann is to Troy, Woolley is to this city
  • The book of Genesis says this ancient city "of the Chaldees" was the home of Abraham
  • This ancient Sumerian city's ruins were first excavated in the 1850s, when the Ziggurat of Nanna was discovered
  • In the first half of the 3rd millennium B.C., this 2-letter city established its hegemony over the rest of Sumer

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