Leonard Woolley

Excavations At Ur (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2010. Sir Leonard Woolley was an archaeologist and this book is about his dig at Ur, which is the subject of this classic work, inspired Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia. When Woolley began work at Dr, little was known about the early civilizations of Mesopotamia. His work at Dr over twelve years, which included the excavation of royal tombs, the discovery of the gold jewellery of Queen PuAbi and the excavation of the famous ziggurat, allowed scholars to reconstruct the civilization of Sumer in the 3rd century B.C.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136211379
• Artikelnr.: 45132409

Autorenporträt

Sir Leonard Woolley was an archaeologist.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I. The Beginnings of Ur, and the Flood II. The Uruk and Jamdat
Nasr Periods III. The Royal Cemetery IV. Al 'Ubaid and the First Dynasty of
Ur V. The Dark Ages VI. The Third Dynasty of Ur VII. The Isin and Larsa
Periods VIII. The Kassite and Assyrian Periods IX. Nebuchadnezzar II and
the last days of Ur