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Ur of the Chaldees

Modern Tell el-Muqayyar, southern Iraq
Coordinates 30.9626, 46.1031 View modern location ↗
Era The Patriarchs

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The Mesopotamian city Abraham left when God called him. A major Sumerian center with a great ziggurat to the moon god Nanna; archaeological excavation by Leonard Woolley revealed extensive royal tombs from the third millennium BC.

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