Discovering the royal tombs at Ur.
By: Edited by Shirley Glubok. Abridged and adapted from Ur excavations; the royal cemetery, by C. Leonard Woolley. Foreword by Prudence Oliver Harper. Special photography by Alfred Tamarin. Designed by Gerard Nook.
Contributors: Glubok, Shirley, ed.; Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1969
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Archaeological expeditions.; Ur (Extinct city); Ur (Extinct city)
Description: Traces the planning and execution of the 1922 archaeological expedition to Ur in southern Iraq and the discovery of the tombs and the ancient city.