The Woolley team included his wife and fellow archaeologist, Katharine, who drew the detailed diagrams of the site.

The pit found above Puabi's chamber contained 21 attendants, an elaborate harp or lyre, a chariot, and what was left of a large chest of personal grooming items.

[11] Evidence derived from CAT scans through the University of Pennsylvania Museum suggests that some of the sacrifices were likely violent and caused by blunt force trauma.

The size and weight of the tool fit the damage sustained by the two bodies examined by Aubrey Baadsgaard, a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Cinnabar, or mercury vapour residue, was observed as well, and it would have been used to prevent or slow the decomposition of the bodies until the completion of the necessary funerary rites.

[13] Puabi's physical remains, including pieces of her badly damaged skull, are kept in the Natural History Museum, London.