ancient city of Ur

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/ancient_city_of_Ur
GPTKB entity
Statements (29)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:ancient_city
gptkbp:abandoned 4th century BC
gptkbp:archaeologicalSite gptkb:Tell_el-Muqayyar
gptkbp:distanceFromNasiriyah 16 km
gptkbp:economy agriculture
trade
gptkbp:excavatedBy gptkb:Leonard_Woolley
1922
gptkbp:flourishedDuring gptkb:Early_Bronze_Age
gptkb:Third_Dynasty_of_Ur
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label ancient city of Ur
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:cemetery
gptkb:Ziggurat_of_Ur
gptkbp:languageSpoken Akkadian
Sumerian
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:Mesopotamia
gptkb:Sumer
gptkbp:locatedInPresentDay gptkb:Iraq
gptkbp:locatedOn gptkb:Euphrates_River
gptkbp:mainDeity gptkb:Nanna
gptkbp:notableRuler gptkb:Shulgi
gptkb:Ur-Nammu
gptkbp:populationPeak 65000
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Sumerian_religion
gptkbp:significantEvent gptkb:Great_Flood_(Sumerian_myth)
gptkbp:UNESCO_tentative_list 2016
gptkbp:writingSystem Cuneiform
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Tell_el-Muqayyar
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6