(NSI News Source Info) May 13, 2009: Iraqi and US soldiers stand guard at ancient Ur during a handing over ceremony between the US military and Iraqi offcials in southern central Iraq on May 13, 2009. 
The Ziggurat of Ur which tradition dictates is the Biblical birthplace of Abraham was handed back by the US military to the Iraqi control.
The ancient Sumerian city, which dates back to 6000 BC, lies on a former course of the Euphrates, one of the two great rivers of Iraq, and is one of the country's oldest sites.
Ur remained an important city until its conquest by Alexander the Great a few centuries before Christ.
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