So I’ve decided that I will be dedicating two blog posts to Near Eastern art. Today’s blog post will be focusing on Sumerian Art (4000-2000 B.C.) and the other blog post will focus on Babylonian art.

These tombs held crowns, necklaces, and the exquisite box known as the Standard of Ur, ... created by the Sumerian king Ur-Nammu between 2100 and 2050 B.C. Bridgeman/ACI.

Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most important ancient cities. Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative ...

What the Standard of Ur was used for remains a mystery but it seems to have royal connections. It was buried in a royal grave and depicts two contrasting scenes of a king of Ur - identifiable as ...

The Sumerians likely bartered palm, fish and vegetable oil, ... The prize piece is the Standard of Ur (below), a trapezoidal box, 18-1/2 inches long by 8 inches high, ...

What the Standard of Ur was used for remains a mystery but it seems to have royal connections. ... Ur in Mesopotamia was one of the earliest cities in the world.

The Standard of Ur, dating to ca. 2500 B.C., is a foot-and-a-half-long box decorated with mosaics representing a Sumerian king (enthroned above) celebrating with his retinue in the top scene.

The war panel from the "Standard of Ur," a 4500-year-old Sumerian mosaic now in ... Historians think that the Sumerians were the first to breed kungas from before 2500 B.C. — at least 500 ...

Kungas were valuable in Mesopotamia, costing up to six times as much as a donkey. ... A panel of the 4,500-year-old Standard of Ur, which depicts kungas hauling chariots.

What the Standard of Ur was used for remains a mystery but it seems to have royal connections. ... Ur in Mesopotamia was one of the earliest cities in the world.