In Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers ... Woolley called it the Standard of Ur, because he thought it might have been a battle standard that you carried high on a pole in a procession ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III.

Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place ... One of these was the Royal Standard of Ur buried in a royal grave. It shows the king of Ur as a warrior on one side and him enjoying a banquet ...

The lyre was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Iraq around 3200 BCE ... The bull lyre is one of three excavated from the royal cemetery of Ur. Each lyre had a different animal head protruding from ...

This is a recreation of Queen Shub-Ad's harp, an artifact unearthed early this century from the Sumerian Royal Cemetery at Ur. It is the oldest known example of the true triangular harp, which evolved ...