Royal Cemetery at Ur

Royal Cemetery at Ur

General view of the Royal Cemetery at Ur, during excavations.
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Location	Tell el-Muqayyar, Dhi Qar Province, Iraq
Region	Mesopotamia
Coordinates	30°57′41″N 46°06′22″E / 30.9615°N 46.1061°E / 30.9615; 46.1061
Type	Settlement
History
Founded	c. 3800 BC
Abandoned	After 500 BC
Periods	Ubaid period to Iron Age
Cultures	Sumerian
Site notes
Excavation dates	1853–1854, 1922–1934
Archaeologists	John George Taylor, Leonard Woolley

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 and 1934 under the direction of Leonard Woolley in association with the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Many finds are now in museums, especially the Iraq Museum, Baghdad and the British Museum.