A new church complex has been built near the ancient city of Ur, in Iraq, in an effort to draw attention to the long history of the country's beleaguered Christian community. The building of the ...

The Great Ziggurat of Ur rose above one of Mesopotamia’s most powerful cities, a major center of trade, religion, and royal authority founded around 5,800 years ago in southern Iraq. Built for the ...

BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) - The bell of a new church built near Iraq's ancient city of Ur chimed for the first time last week as part of a push to lure back pilgrims to a country that is home to one ...

UR, Iraq (AP) — This is the place where civilization arose, where an ingenious race of people irrigated fields, forged agricultural tools and devised the written word. Some 6,000 years after this ...

The rediscovery of Ur -- The earliest levels at Ur -- Uruk and Jemdat Nasr phases -- The rise of the city state -- Art and technology: objects from the royal cemetery -- The defeat of the city state ...

UR, Iraq (Reuters) - Ur's palaces and temples lie in ruins, but its hulking Ziggurat still dominates the desert flatlands of what is now southern Iraq, as it has for millennia. Climbing the Ziggurat's ...