![]() The work was supported in part by the National Geographic Society. A joint U.S.-Iraqi team reopened excavations there last fall, digging at the site for ten weeks. At the time, the discovery rivaled that of King Tut’s tomb in Egypt.īut Ur and most of southern Iraq has been off limits to most archaeologists during the past half-century of war, invasion, and civil strife. In the 1920s and 1930s, British archaeologist Leonard Woolley dug up some 35,000 artifacts from Ur, including the spectacular remains of a royal cemetery that included more than 2,000 burials and a stunning array of gold helmets, crowns, and jewelry that date to about 2600 B.C. “But this is our first physical evidence.” “There are texts that speak about the ‘black wood of Meluhha,’” said Elizabeth Stone of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, who is co-leading the Ur excavations. ![]()
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