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Also known as: Tall al-Mughair, Tall al-Muqayyar, Tell el-Muqayyar, Ur Kasdim, Ur of the Chaldeans
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Tall al-Muqayyar or Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq
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Ur, important city of ancient southern Mesopotamia (Sumer), situated about 140 miles (225 km) southeast of the site of Babylon and about 10 miles (16 km) west of the present bed of the Euphrates River. In antiquity the river ran much closer to the city; the change in its course has left the ruins in a desert that once was irrigated and fertile land. The first serious excavations at Ur were made after World War I by H.R. Hall of the British Museum, and as a result a joint expedition was formed by the British Museum and the University of ...(100 of 1385 words)

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