The coastal city of Ur, now Tell el-Muqayyar in Nasiriya, Iraq, was founded about 5800 years ago. Ur is first mentioned in the 26th century BCE, with Mesannepada as its first recorded king.

We know little of how Abraham observed his religious practice; what we do know is the divine search that brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, despite everything he knew, despite his apparent ...

MR. WOOLLEY'S brief but compendious account of the excavations at Ur during the seven seasons in which he has been in charge of the joint expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the ...

He is said to be born in “Ur of the Chaldees” (Genesis 11:28, 31), ... “Abraham on the Way to Canaan” dates from 1614. It is held by the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia.

IN 1919 Dr. H. R. Hall, on behalf of the British Museum, spent three months excavating at Ur. Last summer the British Museum and the University Museum of Philadelphia decided to send out a joint ...