The Mesopotamian city of Ur, known as Tell al-Muqayyar, was an important Sumerian city state between about 2025-1738 BC. Located near the modern town of Nasiriya in far southern Iraq, on a abandoned channel of the Euphrates river,Ur covered about 60 acres, surrounding by a city wall. When Woolley excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, the city was a tell,a great artificial hill over seven meters high composed of centuries of building and rebuilding mud brick structures, one stacked on top of another.
