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	Where We Work ::: Iraq Heritage Program :: UR (modern name: Tell el-Muqayyar)
		Ur would remain an important city and sanctuary under the subsequent Agade kings (2334-2154 BC), but the city would rise to again become the pre-eminent city of Mesopotamia under the so-called Third Dynasty of Ur (2112-2004 BC), an important time of political expansion in Iraq.
		The centerpiece of this Sumerian renaissance was the city of Ur, the capital of the empire ruled by the Third Dynasty of Ur.
		However, the Third Dynasty of Ur ziggurat was damaged in the First Gulf war by some 400 bullet holes and the structure was shaken by explosions, recognizable from four nearby bomb craters.
	www.globalheritagefund.org /where/ur.html (5406 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ur (Ancient History, Middle East) - Encyclopedia
		B.C. Among the most important remains of the first dynasty, which has revealed a luxurious material culture, are the royal cemetery, where the standard of Ur was found, and the Temple of Ninhursag at Ubaid, bearing the inscriptions of the kings of the first dynasty.
		Ur was captured c.2340 by Sargon, and this era, called the Akkadian period, marks an important step in the blending of Sumerian and Semitic cultures.
		After this dynasty came a long period of which practically nothing is known except that a second dynasty rose and fell.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/U/Ur.html (506 words)

	Empire of the 3rd dynasty of Ur (
		Although he resided in Ur, another important centre was in Nippur, whence--according to the prevailing ideology-- Enlil, the chief god in the Sumerian state pantheon, had bestowed on Shulgi the royal dignity.
		In Ur III some members of this people are already found in the higher echelons of the administration, but most of them, organized in tribes, still led a nomadic life.
		The end of Ur came about through a concatenation of misfortunes: A famine broke out, and Ur was besieged, taken, and destroyed by the invading Elamites and their allies among the Iranian tribes.
	www.angelfire.com /nt/Gilgamesh/urIII.html (1840 words)

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		The Third Dynasty of Ur refers simultaneously to a 21st to 20th century BC (short chronology) Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state that some historians regard as a nascent empire.
		The Third Dynasty of Ur is commonly abbreviated as Ur III by historians of the period.
		The Ur III Dynasty attempted to establish ties to the early kings of Uruk by claiming to be their familial relations.
	www.australiaiworld.com /wiki-3rd_dynasty_of_Ur (1587 words)

	Epic of Gilgamesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The earliest Sumerian versions of the epic date from as early as the Third dynasty of Ur (2100 BC-2000 BC).
		According to the Greek scholar Ioannis Kordatos, there are a large number of parallel verses as well as themes or episodes which indicate a substantial influence of the Epic of Gilgamesh on the Odyssey, the Greek epic poem ascribed to Homer.
		Gilgamesh of Uruk, the greatest king on earth, two-thirds god and one-third human, is the strongest super-human who ever existed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh (1512 words)

	Ur
		Ur was captured c.2340 by Sargon, and this era, called the Akkadian period, marks an important step in the blending of Sumerian and Semitic cultures.
		After this dynasty came a long period of which practically nothing is known except that a second dynasty rose and fell.
		The third dynasty of Ur fell (c.1950 B.C.) to the Elamites and later to Babylon.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0850155.html (430 words)

	World History 2100- 1900 BC
		Under his son, Shulgi, the empire of Ur extended as far as Anatolia.
		Finally, Ur was attacked and destroyed, thereby ending the golden age.
		Images of UR The city of UR The Palace
	www.multied.com /dates/2000bc.html (344 words)

	Elam - Crystalinks
		Two Elamite dynasties said to have exercised brief control over Sumer in very early times include Avan and Hamazi, and likewise, several of the stronger Sumerian rulers, such as Eannatum of Lagash and Lugal-anne-mundu of Adab, are recorded as temporarily dominating Elam.
		During the first part of the rule of the Simashki dynasty, Elam was under intermittent attack from Mesopotamians and Gutians, alternating with periods of peace and diplomatic approaches.
		Shu-Sin of Ur, for example, gave one of his daughters in marriage to a prince of Anshan.
	www.crystalinks.com /elam.html (2564 words)

	The city of Ur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The favourit god of Ur was SIN, or NANNAR, the moon-god, His ground temple was built near the Ziggurat.
		To the east of the temple area is a huge pit which was a vast cemetery dating back to the thrid dawn of dynasties, 4500 years ago.
		Next to it is the cemetery of the Kings and Princes of the Thrid Dynasty of Ur.
	home.tiscali.dk /8x036176/urtxt.htm (807 words)

	Third Dynasty of Ur - History for Kids!
		Third Dynasty of Ur This is the Middle Bronze Age in West Asia, about 2100 BC to 1700 BC.
		In West Asia, it was a time of conflict between the settled people in the cities of Ur and Uruk and Mari, and the wandering nomads, the Amorites, to their east and west.
		For Ur and the cities of the valley between the Tigris and the Euphrates (Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers), this was a good time.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/westasia/history/uriii.htm (567 words)

	Babylonia: country, language, religion, culture
		In the fourth and third millennium, the alluvial plain witnessed the rise of the world's first urban centers and monarchies, together with the first attempts to write (in cuneiform script), to build temples, create monumental works of art, organize an administration, and build empires.
		The new ruler of the united cities was king Ur-Nammu of Ur, the founder of the Empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur.
		However, in ca.2000, the Third Dynasty of Ur lost control after some kind of ecological crisis that may be due to climatological changes, a succession of bad harvests after the impact of a giant meteor, or simply bad irrigation.
	www.livius.org /ba-bd/babylon/babylonia.html (2481 words)

	Sumerian Information of the Annunaki -- compared to the Anakim
		Even the Hebrew scholars had to assume he was born at Ur about 2,000 B.C. Annunaki were seven judges of hell (nether world), children of the god Anu, who also sat before the throne of Ereshkigal (the wife of Nergal), she was the daughter of Demeter, Greek Persephone, Roman Proserpine, Gnostic Kore in other mythology.
		Archaeologists have found that this city was one of the oldest of Babylonia, founded before 4000 B.C. One of the earliest dynasties of the Sumerians ruled from Erech, it boasted the first ziggurat, or temple tower, and began the use of clay cylinder seals.
		In the twentieth century Sir Leonard Wooley discovered at the mount of al’Ubaid near Ur and ancient temple dedicated by A-anni-pad-da, (king of Ur, son of Mes-anni-pad-da, who was the founder of the third dynasty after the Flood in the Sumerian lists of sovereigns) to the goddess Nin-Kharsag.
	www.mazzaroth.com /ChapterThree/SumerianInfoOfAnnunaki-Anakim.htm (2080 words)

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		THIRD MILLENNIUM B.C. Agrawal, Archaeology of India (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies 46, 1982).
		K. Frifelt, "Further Evidence of the Third Millennium Town at Bat in Oman," JOS 7 (1985) 89-104.
		Säve-Söderbergh, The Navy of the Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty (Uppsala 1946).
	nautarch.tamu.edu /class/612/PRECLASS.htm (5131 words)

	Sumerian Mythology FAQ
		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.
		Meanwhile, in the south, the Dynasty of Erech was founded by Meskiaggasher, who, along with his successors, was termed the "son of Utu", the sun-god.
		Utu is the son of Nanna and Ningal and the god of the Sun and of Justice.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/sumer-faq.html (10387 words)

	Bibliography of Mesopotamian Mathematics
		Friberg, J. The third millenium roots of Babylonian mathematics.
		Keiser, C.E. Cuneiform bullae of the third millennium BC (Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan 3).
		Steinkeller, P. 'The administrative and economic organization of the Ur III state: the core and the periphery'.
	it.stlawu.edu /~dmelvill/mesomath/biblio/bigbib.html (7846 words)

	British Museum - Third Dynasty of Ur (Ur III)
		Mesopotamia shifted to the cities of Uruk and Ur.
		The governor of Ur, Ur-Nammu, established a dynasty which came to dominate the other cities of the region, and whose territory stretched east into Iran.
		With reduced supplies the empire was unable to effectively confront an attack by the Elamites from the east; Ur was destroyed and Ibbi-Sin was taken into exile.
	www.britishmuseum.org /explore/highlights/article_index/t/third_dynasty_of_ur_ur_iii.aspx (163 words)

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		We will have short, daily quizzes on the reading assignments; quizzes count for a third of the semester grade.
		If you miss the exam you may take a make-up, but will be docked two thirds of a q.
		10: The Third Dynasty of Ur; prehistoric India (WS 75-85; ANET 40‑75 =Epic of Gilgamesh)
	sitemason.vanderbilt.edu /site/hJJLl6/CLAS207 (827 words)

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