The City of Ur

In 22 hundred, a resurgeance of sumerian arts, letters and politics took place at the southern city of ur. For two centuries, in what scholars call the sumerian renaissance, the blossomed. If or had not fallen due to internal dissension and an ill timed invasion from the east, it would be much more famous than greece or rome as the fountain head of human civilization and technology. And its decline around two thousand signalled the end of mesopotamian power being concentrated in sumer in the southeast. In about two thousand, incidentally, the legendary origin point of the biblical patriarch abraham. The city of or in two thousand b c e