Ur of the Chaldees

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Ur Kasdim (Hebrew: אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים, romanized: ʾŪr Kaśdīm), commonly translated as Ur of the Chaldees, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the birthplace of Abram (later Abraham), the patriarch of the Israelites and the Ishmaelites. In 1862, British East India Company officer Henry Rawlinson identified the location of Ur Kaśdim as Tell el-Muqayyar (Ur) near Nasiriyah in the Baghdad Eyalet of Ottoman Iraq. In 1927, Leonard Woolley excavated there and identified it as a Sumerian archaeological site where the Chaldeans were to settle around the 9th century BCE. More recent archaeologists have continued focus on the Nasiriyah area, where the ancient Ziggurat of Ur is located. A site with a local tradition of being Abraham's birthplace Ur Kaśdim and minority scholarly support is Urfa, in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey (in the vicinity of the city of Edessa).

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