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Historical Context Continued…<br />
• The city and of <strong>Ur</strong>, which contained rare and exquisite <strong>Sumerian</strong><br />
artifacts from the renowned, 4500-year-old royal cemetery at <strong>Ur</strong> is<br />
known to the world as the city famed in the Bible as the home of the<br />
patriarch Abraham (Parchin, 1). In the second half of the third<br />
millennium, Sumer and its city-states fell to Sargon I, the conqueror<br />
who unified Mesopotamia and created the Akkadian Empire. The city<br />
rebounded by a brief resurgence of power at the end of the three<br />
thousand B.C. under the ruling of <strong>Ur</strong>-Namma and his Third Dynasty.<br />
During this period, the massive ziggurat of <strong>Ur</strong> was raised. However,<br />
the city never regained its prosperity that it once reached, and the city<br />
was not heard until the excavation of the Royal <strong>Cemetery</strong> of <strong>Ur</strong> and<br />
Queen Pu-abi by Professor Leonard Wholley.
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