Ur of the Chaldees: Where was it? A Jewish Perspective

This video explores where the potential location of Ur of the Chaldees was according to Jewish tradition. Since the Woolley expedition in the 1920s it has been assumed by most scholars that the city of Ur and the biblical Ur of the Chaldees were synonymous. We will explore alternative sites.
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Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Description
English: Part of Dead Sea Scroll number 28a (1Q28a) from Qumran Cave 1. From Qumran (Khirbet Qumran or Wadi Qumran), West Bank of the Jordan River, near the Dead Sea, modern-day State of Israel. The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan Hashimite Kingdom.
Date 28 January 2018, 15:41:11
Source Own work
Author Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Description British Museum page
English: Sumerian Cylinder Seal of King Ur-Nammu
Date 7 February 2005
Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/steveha...
Author Steve Harris

Description Apadana Hall, 5th century BC carving of Persian and Median soldiers in traditional costume (Medians are wearing rounded hats and boots)
Source Own work
Author Arad
https://twitter.com/mosaicmag/status/...
Description
Türkçe: Bu Sümer uygarlığı döneminde antik Mezopotamya şehir devletlerinin bir haritasıdır.
English: This is a map of the city states of ancient Mesopotamia during the Sumerian civilization.
Date 2 February 2019
Source
No machine-readable author provided. Zunkir assumed (based on copyright claims).

File:Ur3.JPG
Author Hedda Gabler
https://www.realmofhistory.com/2017/0...
https://www.ancient.eu/eridu/
Description
English: Harran beehive houses
Date 18 June 2012, 07:22:03
Source Own work
Author Zhengan
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...
https://pics.librarything.com/picsize...
Description
English: The Hittite Empire, approximate extent of the maximum area of the Hittite rule (light green) and the Hittite rule ca. 1350-1300 BC (green line)
Date 17 September 2013, 20:52:36
Source
Near East topographic map-blank.svg for the background map
This map for the information
Author
Near_East_topographic_map-blank.svg: Sémhur
derivative work: Ikonact
Description
Tablet on display at the Oriental Institute, with the caption:

Hittite Cuneiform Tablet:
Cultic Festival Script
Baked clay
Hattusha
Late Bronze Age (14th century BC?)
A6007
Description
العربية: أنقاض مدينة أور الأثرية في محافظة ذي قار جنوب العراق
English: Ruins in the Town of Ur, Southern Iraq
Español: Ruinas de la ciuad de Ur con el Zigurat de Ur-Nammu al fondo a las afueras de Nasiriyah.
Ruins
Date 20 June 2006
Source Flickr
Author M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA.
Description Euphrates river
Date Taken on 23 September 2009
Source https://web.archive.org/web/201610140...
Author Alen Ištoković
Description
English: Map of the main cities of Lower Mesopotamia during the Early Dynastic period, with the approximate course of the rivers and the ancient shoreline of the Gulf.
Français : Carte des principales villes de la Basse Mésopotamie durant la période des Dynasties Archaïques, avec le tracé approximatif des fleuves et l'ancien trait de côte du Golfe.
Date 28 September 2010, 12:00 (UTC)
Source
Near_East_topographic_map-blank.svg
Author
Near_East_topographic_map-blank.svg: Sémhur
Description Picture of the Şanlıurfa/Urfa skyline.
Date 5 July 2006, 21:51:36
Source Flickr: Şanlıurfa
Author Damien Halleux Radermecker
Description
English: Balikli Göl, Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Français : Balikli Göl, Şanlıurfa, Turquie
Date 24 May 2014
Source Own work
Author Bernard Gagnon
Description
English: Harran beehive houses
Date 18 June 2012, 07:22:03
Source Own work
Author Zhengan
Description
English: A fishing boat in the Euphrates southern Iraq
العربية: قارب صيد محلي في نهر الفرات جنوب العراق في ذي قار
Date 28 December 2015, 09:33:17
Source Own work
Author Aziz1005
Description
English: Euphrates River
Date 21 June 2012, 04:59:31
Source Own work
Author Zhengan