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  2. Ur of the Chaldees - Wikipedia

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    The passage claimed that Abraham was born in the Babylonian city Camarina, which it notes was also called "Uria". (Such indirect quotations of Eupolemus via Polyhistor are referred to as Pseudo-Eupolemus.) This site is identified by modern scholars with the Sumerian city of Ur located at Tell el-Mukayyar, which in ancient texts was named Uriwa ...

  3. Harran (biblical place) - Wikipedia

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    Although the placename can be found in English as Haran, Charan, and Charran, it should not be confused with the personal name Haran, one of Abram's two brothers.The biblical placename is חָרָן ‎ (with a ḥet) in Hebrew, pronounced and can mean "parched," but is more likely to mean "road" or "crossroad," cognate to Old Babylonian ḫaranu (MSL 09, 124-137 r ii 54').

  4. Viroconium Cornoviorum - Wikipedia

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    Viroconium or Uriconium, formally Viroconium Cornoviorum, was a Roman city, one corner of which is now occupied by Wroxeter, a small village in Shropshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) east-south-east of Shrewsbury.

  5. Historical urban community sizes - Wikipedia

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    Many of the figures are uncertain, especially in ancient times. ... City Location 2500 BC 2300 BC 2000 BC 1800 BC 1600 BC 1360 BC 1200 BC Athens [46] [47] Greece

  6. Ur - Wikipedia

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    The city's patron deity was Nanna (in Akkadian, Sin), the Sumerian and Akkadian moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god's name, UNUG KI, literally "the abode (UNUG) of Nanna". [4] The site is marked by the partially restored ruins of the Ziggurat of Ur, which contained the shrine of Nanna, excavated in the 1930s.

  7. Abraham Path - Wikipedia

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    The Abraham Path is a cultural route believed to have been the path of the patriarch Abraham's ancient journey across the Ancient Near East. [1] The path was established in 2007 as a pilgrims' way to mimic the historical believed route of Abraham, between his birthplace of Ur of the Chaldees, believed by some to have been Urfa, Turkey, and his final destination of the desert of Negev.

  8. Ancient village hidden in Italian cave - AOL

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    An ancient village in Sicily is nestled largely inside a cave -- in a natural opening between two rocky mountains.

  9. Kurna - Wikipedia

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    Villagers built alongside the tombs, as the tombs became a part of the house. Looted items would either be sold, or kept around the homes of the villagers. [ 11 ] In order to stop the looting the Department of Antiquities expropriated the land on which the Qurnis lived and decided to move them to a new settlement, to be designed and built by ...