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Human sacrifice and intentional corpse preservation in the Royal Cemetery of Ur

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Ur

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Modern CT-based corrective study of two surviving skulls, supporting lethal trauma and deliberate treatment while not licensing generalization to every retainer burial.

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Ur's heritage and excavation sources document a major southern Mesopotamian city with monumental remains and elite burial; this catalog does not specifically substantiate every administration, trade, and religious-organization clause in the original list.

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