Ur

Dhi Qar Governorate · Iraq

Ur, Iraq
Photo: M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA., CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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November to March
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$
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The excavated remains of a major Sumerian city on the southern Mesopotamian plain, dominated by a restored stepped ziggurat. Royal tombs and mud-brick foundations record one of the earliest urban civilizations.

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