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...

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...

a 2 meter by 3 meter mud brick square with a niche. At Level XI it was rebuilt and eventually reached its final tripartite form in Level VI. In Ur III...

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...

Ninḫursaĝ, a 50 meter long and 7 meter high outcrop on the northern edge of the mound. At the southeast end of the outcrop the only remains of an Ur III period...

In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in...

for the Ziggurat of Ur-Gur. Overall, the ziggurat site is 25 meters in height, has a rectangular base of 39 meters by 58 meters, consisting three stages...

2016 and June 2017. After announcing the creation of his YouTube channel, UR Cristiano on 21 August 2024, it became the fastest to reach the 1 million...

elastic limit must be used. Modulus of resilience (Ur) is measured in a unit of joule per cubic meter (J·m−3) in the SI system, i.e. elastical deformation...

Tigris and Euphrates fell 1.5 meters beneath the level of 2600 BC, and although they stabilized for a time during the following Ur III period, rivalries between...

bone tools. On the west side of Highway 90 and some 500 meters above, overlooking Neve Ur's hillside citrus groves, is the most completely preserved...

as it shared lots of similarities with temple kitchens at Ur and Nippur. Located 360 meters southeast of Area B. It contains a large Early Dynastic administrative...

June 2009. Retrieved 8 May 2009., the weather station elevation is 1099 meters above sea level. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Göschenen. Official...

villages of Beit Ur crown two hilltops, less than 2 miles (3.2 km) apart (with Beit Ur al-Fauqa some 245 meters (804 ft) higher than Beit Ur al-Tahta) along...

4587(11) km s−1 for the maximum-intensity definition, with a relative uncertainty ur = 3.5×10−9. "BIPM – Commission internationale du mètre". www.bipm.org. Archived...

also known by its codename "Uruguay", after the country (kb Urugwaj or kb Ur) and by the name of its designer, Józef Maroszek [pl]. The weapon was a top...

ICBMs date back to the UR-500 which was designed to deliver the 50 megaton (potentially, 100 megaton) Tsar Bomba warhead. The UR-500 was developed into...

Hala-adda; During Ur III period (c. 2112-2004 BC), the city was ruled by a governors (ensi2) appointed by Ur. One is known to be Ur-nigar, son of Shulgi...

the Umma province in the Ur III period. The site measures 990 by 720 meters (712,800 square meters). The main Sargonic and Ur III remains of the site were...

area of ancient Sumer, where around 4000 BC the Mesopotamian cities such of Ur and Uruk emerged. In 2007, following the discoveries at Hamoukar, some archaeologists...

cuneiform script. Babylon Eridu Isin Kish Lagash Larsa Mari Nippur Sippar Tuttul Ur Uruk Tell Leilan Kurda Nineveh Tell al-Rimah Ekallatum The Old Babylonian...

First image taken from the Ur-Leica by Oskar Barnack 1913, Eisenmarkt, Wetzlar, Germany...

a relatively homogeneous material culture. Sumerian cities such as Uruk, Ur, Lagash, Umma, and Nippur located in Lower Mesopotamia were very powerful...

Imports to Ur reflect the cultural and trade connections of the Sumerian city of Ur. During the period of the Early Dynastic III royal cemetery (ca. 2600...

oldest known love poem. Sumerian terracotta tablet#2461 from Nippur, Iraq. Ur III period, 2037–2029 BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul The philosopher...

was 32.60 meters long with a 3.00 meter diameter and a total launch mass of 180 tons. The R-36O used the same hypergolic propellants as the UR-200. In 1965...

Temple. Mound 11 meters high and 90 meters in circumference. Ten occupation levels, atop pure sand, ranging from Early Dynastic I to Ur III. Inscribed bricks...

June 2009. Retrieved 8 May 2009., the weather station elevation is 1470 meters above sea level. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Unterschächen....

sloping walls and a curving one meter thick enclosure wall. An inscribed door socket, in Old Akkadian and dated to the Ur III period, was found at the lowest...

taken his seat upon your throne." In the Ur III empire period that ended the millennium, its first ruler Ur-Nammu recorded, in a brick inscription found...