Episode 06
Seventy-Four Bodies at Ur
Seventy-four people were found arranged with weapons, jewelry, cups, and musical instruments in Ur's Great Death Pit. Mariana and Tyson compare Leonard Woolley's graceful poison narrative with CT evidence that two royal attendants were killed by blows to the head and possibly preserved before burial.
Coming Tuesday, November 17, 2026
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The evidence
The Dead of Ur
Remains from the Great Death Pit, where Leonard Woolley described a quiet procession. CT scans of two skulls recorded something else.
- Date
- c. 2450 BCE
- Place
- Ur, Iraq
- Held
- Penn Museum, Philadelphia
- Catalog
- PG 1237