On Short and Interesting we read to you strange and curious things. Thousands of years ago, a Sumerian king built a resplendent tomb at Ur, where he was buried along with dozens of servants and piles of treasure. Then, years later, his queen also died, and she was buried in an adjacent tomb, and the workers plundered the king’s grave. Then, hundreds of years passed, and the Sumerians forgot the king and queen were buried there, so they piled tomb after tomb after tomb on top. Then, thousands of years later, Englishman C. Leonard Woolley dug it all up and wrote about it.

If you’re interested in reading this moldy old tome, you can find it on the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.33908/page/n7/mode/2up.

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