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 Post subject: Jewellery from the queens grave
PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 3:16 pm 
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From UR, Mesopotamia about 2500 bc

Ancient Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilization. Between 6000-15000bc there were critical advances in the development of human civilization. Small horticultural settlements developed into the worlds first cities. Try these links

http://sumerianshakespeare.com/106901.html

http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/stsmith/classes/anth3/queenur.html


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:55 pm 
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HI davegibson !

Thank you very much , it's a great pleasure to walk in these pages !
.... we have just to open our eyes and let enter the Beauty !

I like this adornment :smt007

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and these Beads
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This whetstone is very original !
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truly a masterpiece!


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Here are some pictures I took in the British museum from the graves of Ur. From 1922 to 1934 British archaeologist,Leonard Woolley, led the excavation at the ancient Mesopotamia city of Ur (in what is now present day southern Iraq). This was a joint venture between the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Most of Woolleys work focus was on the so called royal cemetery, that went back to around 2500 bc. Of some 1850 graves found, 16 of them, Woolley called royal graves because of the rich grave goods found within them.

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The standard of Ur. Inlay of shell, lapis and limestone

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Gameboard. Inlay of shell lapis and limestone

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This is lapis lazuli and gold. A ram in the thickett nibbling leaves from a tree or bush

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In 1922 Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankamun
The graves and tombs at Ur predate this by well over 1000 years :shock:

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