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Picture No 10279942
Date 4th millenium BC
Description Human Sacrifice at Ur
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A king's household sacrificed: a reconstruction. Leonard Woolley's excavations at Ur in 1928 uncovered evidence of a 5,000 year old human sacrifice at a Sumerian king's burial. The tomb, far right, is broken diagrammatically to reveal the interior. See picture 10279931 for the scene shortly before the sacrifice.
Source Illustrated London News June 23, 1928, pp. 1174. A reconstruction drawing by A. Forestier.
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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