Mystery lives on in `Ur' exhibition.(Arts And Entertainment)(Art)

From: The Washington Times | Date: October 16, 1999| Author: Shaw-Eagle, Joanna | Copyright information

The exhibit "Treasures From the Royal Tombs of Ur," opening tomorrow at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, poses more questions than it answers.

Even the designation "royal tombs" could be mistaken. The late archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley, who excavated the remains of the ancient Sumerian city-state of Ur in southwestern Mesopotamia - the same time that Howard Carter made headlines with his 1922 discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt - named a set of 16 tombs "royal...

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