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The Royal Cemetery of Ur
From 1922 to 1934, an archaeologist named C. Leonard Woolley excavated the site of the
ancient Sumerian city of Ur. He discovered a complex of nearly 1800 graves that dated
from c. 2600 to 2000 BCE. In one area of the cemetery, a group of sixteen graves was dated
to the mid-third millennium BCE. These graves were unlike the others, as they consisted of
a series of rooms, constructed deep underground. Leonard Woolley thought the graves
belonged to kings and queens, but another suggestion is that they belonged to the high
priestesses of Ur. The most complete tomb discovered belonged to a lady identified as Puabi from the name carved on a cylinder seal found with the burial. One room contained the
skeletons of 68 women, arranged neatly in rows. Woolley hypothesized that these bodies
belonged to servants or courtiers, who had taken poison, in order to accompany Pu-bi into
the afterlife. In the tombs, Woolley discovered spectacular artifacts, including a golden lyre
decorated with a bearded bull’s head, a small golden figurine of a ram standing upright
with its front legs in a small tree, and a wooden box inlaid with lapis lazuli and mother-ofpearl, which Woolley called the “Royal Standard of Ur.” At the time of its discovery the
Royal Cemetery of Ur competed for public attention only with the uncovering of the intact
tomb of King Tutankhamun of Egypt. The finds from the Royal Graves were eventually
divided between the British Museum, London, the University Museum, Philadelphia (both
sponsors of the dig), and the Iraq National Museum, Baghdad.