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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: 01 Unearthing Sumer, Pietro della Valle (Italian scholar) went to southern Mesopotamia, Fourth Clues: Key to Strange Writing key to cuniform writing came from Rawllingson was the scholar who studied the writing, Royal tomb of Ur Queen Puabi held gold helmet, Zagros Mountains - cliffside had carved writing ordered to be put there by King Darius, Royal tomb of Ur Queen Puabi held gold goblet, Fifth Clue: Digging Deeper excavated the tels and found more artifacts Royal tomb of Ur Queen Puabi, tels found bricks w/cuniform writing, First Clues: Old Stories Bible recorded history of Babylon (modern Iraq), Royal tomb of Ur Queen Puabi held gold queen's headress, Second Clues: Mysterious Marks in about 1600 Pietro della Valle (Italian scholar), Royal tomb of Ur Queen Puabi found by Sir Leonard Woolley (Brittish) 1922-34, Fourth Clues: Key to Strange Writing key to cuniform writing came from Persia (modern Iran), clay tablets led to Fourth Clues: Key to Strange Writing, Persia (modern Iran) via Zagros Mountains - cliffside had carved writing, Babylon (modern Iraq) though it was much later than Sumer, Unearthing Sumer assigned reading The Human Odyssey: Prehistory Through the Middle Ages Vol. 1 Edited by John Cribb, Mary Beth Klee, and John Holdren (pages 35 to 45), First Clues: Old Stories Herodontus recorded history of Babylon (modern Iraq), Third Clues: Tels and Tablets they discovered each tell was the remains of ancient cities. In these they found jewelry, Third Clues: Tels and Tablets Why were tels raised? people built on high ground as protection from flood. When it rained the mud structures added to the foundation., Unearthing Sumer assigned reading Bible - Abraham leaving Ur.