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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Author: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780924171550

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This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.


Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Author: Richard L. Zettler
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780924171543

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This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time--jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.


Discovering the Royal Tombs at Ur

Discovering the Royal Tombs at Ur
Author: Leonard Woolley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1969
Genre: Archaeological expeditions
ISBN:

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Traces the planning and execution of the 1922 archaeological expedition to Ur in southern Iraq and the discovery of the tombs and the ancient city.


The Sumerians

The Sumerians
Author: Leonard Woolley
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1965
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393002928

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Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.


Excavations at Ur

Excavations at Ur
Author: Leonard Woolley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1965
Genre: Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN:

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Art of the First Cities

Art of the First Cities
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2003
Genre: Art, Ancient
ISBN: 1588390438

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Catalog of an exhibition being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 8 to Aug. 17, 2003.


The Sumerians

The Sumerians
Author: Leonard Woolley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1995
Genre: Sumerians
ISBN: 9781566196666

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Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.


The Royal Cemetery

The Royal Cemetery
Author: Leonard Woolley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 576
Release: 1934
Genre:
ISBN:

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Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World

Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World
Author: Colin Renfrew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107082730

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This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.


Tomb Treasures of the Late Middle Kingdom

Tomb Treasures of the Late Middle Kingdom
Author: Wolfram Grajetzki
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-01-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812245679

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With detailed illustrations and archival images, Egyptologist Wolfram Grajetzki describes and compares the opulent tombs of eminent and royal women from the late Middle Kingdom, shedding new light on how the gendered and social identities of these women were viewed in the court and preserved in the grave.