The Wanderer
Ur. It's a short two-letter word. The 'u' is pronounced as in 'up'.
The 'r' is rolled the way a Scot would pronounce it. So it is Ur - or Urrr. And it is where one of the most important figures in the history of religion was born some time around 1800 BCE - the patriarch Abraham. Abraham is claimed by Jews, Christians and Muslims as their founding father. Think of a tiny stream trickling out of a distant mountain that becomes three mighty rivers thousands of miles away on a vast plain, and you'll get the idea. Ur was in the south-east of Mesopotamia, a Greek name that means 'between two rivers', the rivers being the Tigris and the Euphrates. Ur was in the country we now call Iraq.
