Ur of Abraham in Anatolia
Edessa is the alternate site of Ur of the Caldeans (Hebrew: Kasdim) believed by some scholars to be the birthplace of Abraham. The consensus of an earlier generation was that Anatolian Ur was Abraham's Ur. Then in 1927 Leonard Woolley discovered the royal cemeteries at Sumerian Ur and declared that his finds were 'worthy of Abraham'.
