Burrowed in the sweltering desert, U.S. infantrymen ring a stark temple of a moon god and the sand-swept ruins of a city where 6,000 years ago civilization first budded and from which, it is said, ...
In 1925, a team led by British archaeologist Leonard Woolley excavated a mysterious building site in the temple district of Ur, a southern Iraqi city considered the birthplace of ancient Mesopotamian ...