The city of Ur Kaśdim (Ur of the Chaldeans) is the birthplace of Jewish patriarch Abraham. 1) It was identified with Tell el-Muqayyar by Henry Rawlinson in 186

The city of Ur Kaśdim (Ur of the Chaldeans) is the birthplace of Jewish patriarch Abraham. 1) It was identified with Tell el-Muqayyar by Henry Rawlinson in 1862, situated near Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. 2) 1) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+11%3A31&version=NIV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+11%3A31... 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur_of_the_Chaldees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur_of_the_Chaldees