When Stan Parchin, Senior Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions, first reviewed Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur in 2005, circumstances were different. The exhibition itself was still at its holding institution, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. It has since become a traveling exhibition and has journeyed to The St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri and the Houston Museum of Natural Science (where it is currently on view) - much to the delight of museum-goers in these respective locations.

Additionally, we did not have the technology last year to offer you the high-resolution images we often receive. Well, now we do. In fact, if you click on the image shown here, you'll get an eyeful of two human-headed bulls and the man who is providing a tripod for them. (Hard to say if any of the three aren't confused by this turn of events, judging from their facial expressions.) Please enjoy both the nice, big pictures of Mesopotamian art and Stan's descriptions of each. Thank you for the tour, Stan!