SUMARIAN
From 1922 to 1934, C. Leonard Wooley excavated two large trenches near modern day Kuwait, near what used to be called the city of Ur, in Mesopotamia. In trench A, Wooley found many burials and jewelery. Over 1,800 graves were discovered. He called this the "Gold Trench". In Trench B, all Wooley found was a long wall and ruins of buildings. But soon many ancient houses were revealed, and Wooley learned a lot about everyday life in Ur. He called them "royal" because he thought that the only reason they would bury people with great amounts of jewels and gold would be if they were some kind of royalty.
Human need, interest and curiosity caused the Mesopotamians to bury their dead and save their belongings in the dirt. They needed to preserve their lifestyles, and were interested in telling the people of the future of their lives, and we are the future!We are connected to civilizations of the past with these tombs because we have learned, thanks to Wooley, how other people lived back then in Mesopotamia. These people had burials for their lost loved ones, just like we do now. They bury things that they cherished, like we sometimes do (time capsules, etc.). I think that we got these ideas from ancient civilizations.
