Ancient city of Mesopotamia (located mainly in modern-day Iraq). It dates from circa 3,800 B.C. The site is noted for its prominent ziggurat. It started to decline from around 550 BC and was no longer inhabited after about 500 BC, probably due to drought, changing river patterns, and the silting of the outlet to the Persian Gulf.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
City of Ur
Sir Leonard Woolley, archaeologist and excavator of Ur, born in a house on th...
Hugh Casson was an architect, notably for the 1951 Festival of Britain and the London Zoo Elephant House. President of the Royal Academy (PRA) from 1976 to 1984.  He was also president of The Frie...
Architects. The only reference we can find to a group with this name is based in Tanzania.
Architect. He could be either Thomas Cundy, senior (1765-1825), or his son; as their careers were closely intertwined. The identity of the portrait on the right is similarly doubtful. Cundy senior ...
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