Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
May 18th - September 1st 2002 At The Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, at 32 Quincy Street/Broadway) This major traveling exhibition of Sumerian materials from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology showcases objects excavated at the site of Ur, the Biblical homeland of Abraham, in southern Iraq. In the late 1920s, archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley discovered a cemetery here dating to the second half of the third millennium BCE. It consisted of over 1800 graves, sixteen of which he believed to be "royal" based on inscribed objects and the extraordinary wealth they contained. [/] Harvard University Art Museums