Georeferencing Woolley's "Royal Cemetery" and Deep Soundings at Ur (Iraq)

The paper aims at proposing a new topographical analysis for the location of Woolley’s excavations on the upper terrace of the mound of Tell al-Muqayyar, ancient Ur (Iraq). The excavations in this sector of the mound brought to light architectural and material remains from the 3rd millennium BC settlement. New aerial photos are combined with revised digital maps in order to produce a set of georeferenced vector maps that update and correct the datasets published in the final reports. In addition, remote sensing tools are used to provide a preliminary assessment of the changes occurred in the archaeological landscape surrounding Ur during the last decades.