The Standard of Ur is a Sumerian artifact of the 3rd millennium BCE that is now in the collection of the British Museum. It comprises a hollow wooden box...

Ur (/ʊr/ or /ɜːr/) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (Arabic: تَلّ ٱلْمُقَيَّر...

The Royal Cemetery at Ur is an archaeological site in modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq. The initial excavations at Ur took place between 1922...

Ur Kasdim (Hebrew: אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים, romanized: ʾŪr Kaśdīm), commonly translated as Ur of the Chaldees, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the...

dynasty of Ur (abbreviated Ur I) was a dynasty of rulers from the city of Ur in ancient Sumer who reigned c. 2600 – c. 2340 BC. Ur I is part of the Early...

Ur-Nammu (or Ur-Namma, Ur-Engur, Ur-Gur, Sumerian: 𒌨𒀭𒇉, ruled c. 2112 BC – 2094 BC middle chronology) founded the Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur, in...

The Lyres of Ur or Harps of Ur is a group of four string instruments excavated in a fragmentary condition at the Royal Cemetery at Ur in modern Iraq from...

Ur Ur-Pabilsag (𒌨𒀭𒉺𒉋𒊕, ur-dpa-bil2-sag) was an early ruler of the First Dynasty of Ur in the 26th century BC. He does not appear in the Sumerian King...

height: 45.7 cm; from the Royal Cemetery at Ur (Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq); British Museum (London) Standard of Ur; 2600–2400 BC; shell, red limestone and...

technocratic state called the 3rd Dynasty of Ur. This dynasty was later to become involved with a wave of nomadic invaders known as the Amorites, who...

city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE. The tablet, measuring 11.6 cm high and 5 cm wide, documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, a trader, sold sub-standard copper...

Royal Standard of Ur and the Steele of the Vultures: the Royal Standard depicts soldiers, led by the king of Ur, marching over the corpses of their enemy...

Equid hybrids, also called hybrid equines, are created from the crossing of members from the horse family such as a horse, donkey and zebra. Hybrid equids...

Third Dynasty of Ur remains at Nippur (Sanctuary of Enlil) and Ur (Sanctuary of Nanna), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari,...

and may indicate knowledge of the wheel. The earliest depiction of vehicles in the context of warfare is on the Standard of Ur in southern Mesopotamia,...

one of a pair, from Ur, Southern Iraq, c. 2600 BC Room 56 – The famous 'Standard of Ur', a hollow wooden box with scenes of war and peace, from Ur, c. 2600...

the Middle East. The oldest surviving example so far found of a potter's wheel was found in Ur (modern day Iraq), and dates to approximately 3100 BCE. However...

King Ur-Zababa of Kish. His empire, which he ruled from his archaeologically as yet unidentified capital, Akkad, is thought to have included most of Mesopotamia...

invention of the Sistrum, a musical instrument of the percussion family. c. 2600 BC - The creation of Standard of Ur which includes soundbox of a musical...

human civilization. They were used in ancient Sumer and are seen on the Standard of Ur, where they were used on both bovines and equines. There are theories...

in Russia. As of October 2015 UR-144 is a controlled substance in China. UR-144 is banned in the Czech Republic. A forensic standard of UR-144 is available...

Ninhursag in Kes, Ea in Eridu, Sin in Ur, Samas in Sippar, (and) Nergal in Kutha, that (Naram-Sin) be (made) the god of their city, and they built within...

bronze panels that had images of griffins and winged deities carved into them. The Royal Standard of Ur showcases the king of Ur on a low-back chair with animal...

periods. The best preserved inlaid object is the Standard of Ur found in one of the royal tombs of this city. It represents two principal scenes on its...

battle wagons and chariots of kings and gods. Equids appear in this role in official imagery such as the ca. 2600 BCE Standard of Ur mosaic and numerous surviving...

would receive special favors in the underworld. During the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112 – c. 2004 BC), it was believed that a person's treatment in the...

Ur (c. 2650 BC), including the two figures of a Ram in a Thicket, the Copper Bull and a bull's head on one of the Lyres of Ur. The so-called Standard...

giant lyres. Bull lyres are a type of eastern lyre that have a flat base and bull's head on one side. The lyres of Ur are bull lyres excavated in ancient...

The first evidence of humans using vehicle in warfare are Sumerian depictions of four-wheeled wagons pulled by semi-domesticated onagers. These war wagons...

of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian...