Did You Know
1. Abraham lived just over a 1,000 years after cuneiform; the earliest form of writing was invented.
2. Abraham was from the ancient city of Ur in Southern Mesopotamia, near modern-day Basra, Iraq.
A. Ur is roughly 160 km (about 100 miles) Northwest of Basra, Iraq, close to Kuwait and the Gulf.
B. This place Abraham homeland in the Southern Iraq region, just inland from the Persian Gulf.
C. Ur (Tell el - Muqayyar is justa variant spelling - not a different location) but this is up the Euphrates River, Northwest of Basra.
D. Haran (Abraham next stop) far to the North, in modern - day Turkey/Syria region.
E. Clean covenant aligned migration path; Ur - Haran - Canaan.