Ur

Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, located near the original mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. Because of marine regression, the remains are now well inland in present-day Iraq, south of the Euphrates on its right bank at {{coor dm|30|95|N|46|5|E|}}, and named Tell el-Mukayyar , near the city of Nasiriyah south of Baghdad.

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Mesopotamia - Euphrates - Tigris - Persian Gulf - Eridu - Iraq - Nasiriyah - Baghdad

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The site is marked by the ruins of the ziggurat (left), still largely intact, and by the settlement mound. 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.

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Ziggurat - Nanna - Moon - Deity - Sumerian mythology - Bitumen - Mortar

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