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.
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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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