TREASURES FROM THE ROYAL TOMBS OF UR

SUGGESTED READINGS

• Andrews, Anthony P.: First Cities. Washington, D.C.: St. Remy Press and Smithsonian Institution, 1995.

• Baumann, Hans: In the Land of Ur: The Discovery of Ancient Mesopotamia, translated by Stella Humphries. New York: Pantheon Books, 1969.

• Crawford, Harriet E.W.: Sumer and the Sumerians. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

• Editors of Time-Life Books: The Age of God Kings, Timeframe 3000-1500 B.C. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1987.

• EXPEDITION: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The following complete issues are dedicated to Ur and Sumeria:
  
  
  • Vol 20, No 1 (Fall 1977)
  • Vol 40, No 2 (1998)

• Fagan, Brian M.: Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia. Boston: Little, Brown, c. 1979.

• Finegan, Jack: Archaeological History of the Ancient Middle East. New York: Dorset, 1979.

• Gadd, Cyril John: History and Monuments of Ur. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1929.

• Hamblin, Dora Jane and the editors of Time-Life Books: The First Cities. New York: Time-Life Books, 1973.

• Kramer, Samuel Noah: History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Man's Recorded History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

• Kramer, Samuel Noah: The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.

• Reade, Julian: Mesopotamia. London: British Museum Press, 1991.

• Severy, Merle, "Iraq: Crucible of Civilization," in National Geographic, Vol 179, No 5 (May 1991), pages 102-115.

• Stefoff, Rebecca: Finding the Lost Cities (Chapter 12, "Ur: Back to the Beginning"). New York: Oxford University Press, c. 1997.

• Wenke, Robert J.: Patterns in Prehistory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

• Winstone, H.V.F.[Harry Victor Frederick]: Woolley of Ur: The Life of Sir Leonard Woolley. London: Secker and Warburg, 1990.

• Woolley, C.[Charles] Leonard: The Sumerians. New York: W. W. Norton, 1965.

• Woolley, C.[Charles] Leonard: Ur "of the Chaldees": A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur, by P.R.S. Moorey. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982.

• Woolley, Sir Leonard: Discovering the Royal Tombs at Ur, edited by Shirley Glubok. New York: Macmillan, 1969.

• Woolley, Sir Leonard: Excavations at Ur: A Record of Twelve Years Work. New York: Crowell, 1955.

• Zettler, Richard L. and Lee Horne, editors: Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1998.  [Exhibition Catalog]

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