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	Ur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ziggurat is a temple of Nanna, the moon deity in Sumerian mythology, and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined together with bitumen, in the upper stage they are joined with mortar.
		Ur was inhabited in the earliest stage of village settlement in southern Mesopotamia, the Ubaid period.
		In early 1990, a handful of travelers were permitted to tour the site, escorted by soldiers, but they were not permitted to climb the ziggurat (as they were elsewhere) because of its commanding view of the military base and all the country surrounding it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ur (1909 words)

	The Egyptian Old Kingdom, Sumer and Akkad
		That III Dynasty royal tombs are at Saqqara is unquestioned, and it was always thought that the wall around Djoser's pyramid complex was simply the distinctive façade of the I Dynasty tombs made large.
		The III Dynasty of Ur was the last brilliant moment for the Sumerians, ruling the whole country as none of the earlier dynasties had.
		Sumerian civilization did not vanish, it was simply translated; but even the translators did not forget Sumerian -- it was remembered by scholars, even by Kings of Assyria, centuries after it had last been uttered in ordinary speech.
	www.friesian.com /notes/oldking.htm (5093 words)

	Ancient Sumer History in Mesopotamia
		The Sumerians may have migrated from the East -- either ancient India or Iran -- and were unrelated on the basis of their language to the various groups speaking Semitic languages in the Ancient Near East (F).....
		They are the Uruk Period -- which saw the dominance of the city-state of that same name -- the Jemdet Nasr Period -- the Early Dynastic Periods (2900-2370 BC) -- the Akkadian Period -- Ur III Period; the entire span lasting from circa 3800 to 2000 BC (A).....
		Occupation commences in the Ubaid Period (circa 4000 BC) and flourishes from 3400 to 2800 BC during the Late Uruk -- Jemdet Nasr -- Early Dynastic I Periods.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Sumer.html (1998 words)

	Antiques AtoZ \| Leroy Golf Sumerian Seals
		Dynastic I seals are very scarce and the few I have seen have been almost entirely in museum collections or old catalogs.
		It is said in the Sumerian myth of the building of Enki’s temple in Eridu, the so called “sea-house”, that after its completion Enki journeyed by boat to Enlil’s temple in Nippur to obtain the blessing and approval of the king of the gods.
		The style of the stone resembles those of the Ur III period, and the god’s costume seems to be of similar age.
	www.antiquesatoz.com /golf/golfsumeriaseal.htm (3299 words)

	Sumer-H1
		Sumerian religion was the unifying and dominant force which provided the basic value structure of the society.
		Sumerian pantheon included (A) Enlil: ruler of all other gods represented by the air or wind; (B) Anu: the Sky god; (C) Enki or Ea: god of the earth and water; (D) Ishtar: referred to as the "Whore of Babylon" in the O.T., she was the goddess of love and fertility.
		Sumerians invented the wheel C. Sumerians developed a math system based on the numeral 60 which was the basis of time in modern world.
	www.biblicalheritage.org /History/sumer-h1.htm (736 words)

	Ur - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The ziggurat is a temple of Nanna, a deity in Sumerian mythology, and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined together with bitumen, in the upper stage they are joined with mortar.
		Scholars believe that, as the climate changed from relatively moist to drought in the early 3rd millennium BC, the small farming villages of the Ubaid culture consolidated into larger settlements out of the need for large-scale, centralized irrigation works to survive the dry spell.
		Apparently, in the later times, owing to its sanctity, Ur became a favourite place of sepulture, so that after it had ceased to be inhabited it still continued to be used as a necropolis.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ur (1814 words)

	Ur
		The ziggurat is a temple of Nanna and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined together with bitumen, in the upper stage they are joined with mortar.
		Later, around 2600 BC, in the Sumerian Early Dynastic period[?] III, the city was again thriving.
		Ur by this time was considered sacred to Nanna, the moon god in Sumerian mythology.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ur/Ur.html (985 words)

	Ur - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Scholars believe that, as theclimate changed from relatively moist to drought in the early 3rdmillenium BC, the small farming villages of the Ubaid culture consolidated into larger settlements out of the need forlarge-scale, centralized irrigation works to survive the dry spell.
		Ur becamesuch a center, and by around 2600 BC, in the Sumerian Early Dynastic Period III, the city was again thriving.
		His code of laws (a fragment was identified in Istanbul in 1952) is one of the oldest such documentsknown, preceding the code of Hammurabi.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Ur (1743 words)

	Sumerian Mythology FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		They are the Uruk period, which saw the dominance of the city of that same name, the Jemdat Nasr period, the Early Dynastic periods, the Agade period, and the Ur III period - the entire span lasting from 3800 BCE to around 2000 BCE.
		In addition, there is evidence of the Sumerians in the area both prior to the Uruk period and after the Ur III Dynastic period, but relatively little is known about the former age and the latter time period is most heavily dominated by the Babylonians.
		Periodic death and rebirth is a common theme in agricultural myths where the return of the deities from the earth mirrors a return to life of plants.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/sumer-faq.html (10387 words)

	Mesopotamian Protohistory (King Lists, Flood, Jemdet Nasr, Old Sumerian Age, Early Dynastic)
		Sumerian protohistory is divided into the Jemdet Nasr period (the foundation of the first city states) for which no contemporary records are available and the Old Sumerian period.
		Sumerians are very conscious about their civilization and held a high opinion of it.
		A large fraction of texts in Old Sumerian and most of our knowledge on this language is derived from texts already found before 1900 CE in Nippur, a holy city, the religious capital of Sumer, seat of Enlil, the supreme god of the Sumerian pantheon.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /bxpoma/akkadeng/protohistory.htm (3066 words)

	The Sumerian King List - www.GatewaysToBabylon.com
		The Sumerian King List, written early in the second millennium Before Common Era, supplied the names of the king along with the lengths of their reigns, dynasty by dynasty, and concluded with the well-known rules of the Third Dynasty of Ur and their successors at Isin.
		Early Dynastic Sumer was a loose-knit confederation of small city-states whose relationships with one another varied from vassalage to equality, but never unity.
		Early Dynastic incriptions were full of references to battle between city-states.
	www.gatewaystobabylon.com /introduction/sumer_kinglist.htm (3849 words)

	IBSS - History - Sumerian
		The Sumerians were the oldest known civilization with city-states, fortified towns and the development of writing called cuneiform which is Latin for "wedge-shaped forms." Sumerian language is different from all other languages.
		The legend of Sargon of Akkad or Agade in Sumerian, tells how Sargon was was born of a priestess who put him in a basket in the river (similar to the story of Moses).
		With the decline of Sumerian, Akkadian became the lingal franca in the second millennium BC until the time of the Persians when Aramaic was the official language.
	www.bibleandscience.com /history/sumerians.htm (613 words)

	Sumerian Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The early dynastic era developed around the delta area of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
		Early city-states were ruled by a priest-king who was originally elected by the people.
		The early dynastic period ended C. 2600 BC when a destructive flood destroyed the Sumerian city-states.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/2547/kura-2.htm (303 words)

	Is there archaeological evidence of the Tower of Babel? - ChristianAnswers.Net
		The connections between Genesis 11 and the early stages of urbanization in Mesopotamia are further confirmed by the statement of the builders in Genesis 11:4 that they desired not to be scattered abroad.
		Although its period of operation was relatively brief, the general assembly format of government left a permanent impression on Mesopotamian society in that this was the form of government that mythology depicted as used by the gods.
		A prolonged period in which only very scattered individual settlements existed was suddenly followed by a phase in which the land was clearly so densely settled that nothing like it had been seen even in the Susiana of the previous period.
	www.christiananswers.net /q-abr/abr-a021.html (7939 words)

	Uruk - Ur - The Great Ziggurat - Crystalinks
		Uruk (Sumerian Unug, Biblical Erech, Greek Orchoë and Arabic Warka), was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates, on the line of the ancient Nil canal, in a region of marshes, about 140 miles SSE from Baghdad.
		Its voluminous surviving temple archive of the Neo-Babylonian period, documents the social function of the temple as a redistribution center.
		The lost Hebrew original apparently used an otherwise unrecorded text for Genesis and the early chapters of Exodus, one that was independent both of the Masoretic text or of the parallel texts that were translated as the Septuagint.
	www.crystalinks.com /uruk.html (2628 words)

	State of Ur III Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On the one hand, their art of representing the problem without reference to individual texts led to interesting points which were exemplary in further discussions; on the other, however, the lack of concrete reference to textual sources could not lead to detailed analyses of social and economic structures and relations.
		The administration of the city-state and later the province Lagaš (pre-Sargonic to neo-Sumerian period) was treated by J.-P. Grégoire in a monograph (1962).
		Separate studies concerned with partial aspects of Ur III bookkeeping are, moreover, to be found in the works of K. Butz (see the Gelb bibliographical library).
	cdli.ucla.edu /edu/state_of_ur_iii_research.html (1968 words)

	Languge death
		For decades the question of the origin of Sumerian was predicated on the notion that the ancestors of the people who spoke the first attested language of southern Mesopotamia had to have come from somewhere else and were intruders in the area.
		The Sumerian language is definitely present in some form or another in the Uruk III tablets and short of a miracle we shall never go back much farther than that as far as direct evidence for language history is concerned.
		The Sumerian literary texts written under their patronage have survived primarily in copies from the Old Babylonian period and, with a few exceptions, they have come down to us written in a manner that is quite different from the writing norms known to us from Ur III times.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~piotrm/DIGLOS~1.htm (9665 words)

	Biblio
		During Caspers, E. Ã«Sumer, coastal Arabia and the Indus Valley in the Proto-literate and Early Dynastic eras.ÃÃ, J of Econ and Soc Hist of the Orient 22, 2 (1979): 121-35.
		Henrickson, E., 1981, Ã«Non-religious settlement patterning in the late Early Dynastic of the Diyala regionÃ, Mesopotamia 16: 43-140.
		Garrison, M. B., 1989, Ã«An Eary Dynastic III seal in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: the relationship of style and iconography in Early Dynastic III glypticÃ, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 48: 1-13.
	www.sumerian.org /Biblio.htm (2972 words)

	Early Dynastic Mathematics
		The ED period is conventionally broken into ED I, ED II and ED III sub-periods on an archaeological basis.
		There are only a few substantial collections of tablets from the ED period: there are several hundred from Ur in ED II; large groups from Šuruppak (modern Fara) and Abu Salabikh (ancient name unknown) from around 2500, and a big administrative archive from Girsu at the very end of ED III.
		1976a: 430] Secondly, during the 500 years from the archaic period to the time this tablet was written there had been a steady simplification and rationalization of the many archaic metrological systems, as well as an expansion in their size.
	it.stlawu.edu /~dmelvill/mesomath/3Mill/ED.html (1265 words)

	Early Dynastic Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This does not mean that the Early Dynastic period was the most important for the origin of civilization; one could argue that Sumerian civilization had already appeared by this time and was already changing from its earliest form
		The beginning of the Early Dynastic saw the culmination of a long history of changes in the way people were distributed across the landscape
		Gilgamesh, the ensi of Uruk in the middle Early Dynastic period, has to first try to win the approval of a council of elders, and then override them by convincing an assembly of the city's able-bodied men, before he can make war against the threatening city of Kish.
	bruceowen.com /emciv/34104s10.htm (3826 words)

	Ur - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		These concerns revived when Iraq was invaded in 2003 by US-led coalition forces in order to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
		However, the US military presence at Ur is the only thing protecting the site from the hordes of looters that have descended on other archaeological sites across the country since early 2003, destroying the irreplaceable fruits of archaeological research and selling off Iraq's national cultural properties for their own personal benefit.
		Tours, however, are now given of the site and the surrounding area.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ur (2009 words)

	What is Ur? : Abaara fun facts and uncommon knowledge - Ur
		Early Dynastic Period III, the city was again thriving.
		Istanbul in 1952) is one of the oldest such documents known, preceding the code of Hammurabi.
		Sumerian writing, which looks like its stamped into the mud-bricks.
	info.abaara.com /pac/Ur (1786 words)

	sg2UJN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Early Dynastic (ED) I, the pre-flood rulers (
		The first century of this period was probably the time of Gilgamesh of Uruk, the first prominent figure in Near Eastern literature.
		Ram in thicket from the Royal Cemetery of Ur (ED III); gold and lapis lazuli.
	www.unc.edu /courses/pre2000fall/clar047/sg2UrED.html (293 words)

	photos
		Male Worshiper in a Tufted Skirt, Sumerian, Early Dynastic II period
		His layered garment, in a woven material that was tufted to resemble a sheep's fleece, is typical of the period.
		Her hands are clasped against her chest in prayer.
	www.etc.cmu.edu /projects/i4i/photos/votive2.html (78 words)

	Table of Contents - Chapter Four
		1-2, 3100-2700 B.C. Early Period, The Archaic Period
		This definitely shows that Taurus was a period of confusion with a range of 1927 years.
		Protodynastic Period (3100-2700 B.C.) the bull of Memphis
	www.mazzaroth.com /ChapterFour/TOCChapterFour.htm (1283 words)

	J. Friberg: Old Babylonian Mathematics at Ur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is clear that these texts are "early Old Babylonian", since Ur was abandoned at the end of the Larsa period, and since the mathematical texts were found together with dated administrative texts.
		It is tempting to speculate that these texts give a first glimpse of what mathematics in the late Sumerian Ur III period may have been like.
		These new texts include, in particular, a very interesting Early Dynastic text, and some texts that appear to be related to the mathematical texts from Ur mentioned above.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /calendar/0001/fulltext/fulltext5343918151.html (341 words)

	Intro. Ancient Near East
		I cannot quote from the originals; but in Manetho we have one who was both a native of Egypt and also proficient in Greek learning.
		If his claim stands up to scrutiny, ancient Egypt would, indisputably, turn out to be the place where writing first originated.
		Yet, one still would have to show that this Egyptian creation was transferred to Mesopotamia, and that the Sumerian proto-cuneiform and cuneiform writing derived from Egypt.
	aoal.org /ane/Week02_Wed.htm (454 words)

	Gilgamesh Timeline
		3000-2350 BC The Sumerian Period saw the development of organized polytheism and ziggurats with temples on top; advances in mathematics, writing, and astronomy; and the first major literary work, The Epic of Gilgamesh.
		Under Sargon the Great the Akkadians assumed political control of Sumerian culture and refined and improved their art forms.
		The incessant internecine strife of Sumerians and Akkadians left them vulnerable to the Amorites, opportunisLic nomads from the Arabian desert, who established the Babylonian Empire, centered on the royal city of Babylon.
	www.octc.kctcs.edu /crunyon/261c/02-gilgamesh/GilgTime.htm (371 words)

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		2500-2400 Oral tradition of Gilgamesh tales culminates in at least seven known Sumerian texts (including "Gilgamesh and the Land of the Living"; "Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld"; "The Death of Gilgamesh"; "Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven"; "The Deluge") preserved in Old Babylonian copies dating from the early 2nd Millennium.
		Toward end of period, Gilgamesh achieves its standard form throughout Mesopotamia.
		During this late phase, the addition of a prologue and the inclusion of the flood story and a thematically unrelated tale (Tablet XII) of Enkidu's journey to the Netherworld.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~kdickson/gilgamesh.html (486 words)

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