the Great Death Pit at Ur — 74 people chose to die or didn't choose, and we still don't know which

Woolley dug this up 1928-1929. Royal Cemetery at Ur. Tomb PG/1237, called the Great Death Pit. 74 bodies, mostly women, in rows. elaborate headdresses, musical instruments, a lyre still in place. no marks of violence on the bones. the cups found near some of the attendants suggest they drank somet……