The crushed skull of a male guard wearing a metal helmet, from the tomb of the Sumerian Queen Puabi at the “Great Death Pit,” a mass burial place of royal retainers flattened under the tombs of later burials. From Ur in Iraq, 2600 BCE, now housed at the Penn Museum in Pennsylvania
Penn Museum casts new light on ancient Iraq A long-term exhibition places the Ur treasures in the historic context of a region known as the […]