Royal Cemetery at Ur

Royal Cemetery at Ur
General view of the Royal Cemetery at Ur, during excavations.
Shown within Near East
Ur (West and Central Asia)
Ur (Iraq)
LocationTell el-Muqayyar, Dhi Qar Province, Iraq
RegionMesopotamia
Coordinates30°57′41″N 46°06′22″E / 30.9615°N 46.1061°E / 30.9615; 46.1061
TypeSettlement
History
Foundedc. 3800 BC
AbandonedAfter 500 BC
PeriodsUbaid period to Iron Age
CulturesSumerian
Site notes
Excavation dates1853–1854, 1922–1934
ArchaeologistsJohn 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.