Body ornaments including but not limited to intricate crowns, ornate necklaces, necklaces, brooches, bracelets, and earrings. The Mesopotamians decorated themselves with an immense amount of ornamentation because they simply enjoyed It. The men wore earrings. necklaces, bracelets, bracelets, headbands and chest pieces. Women wore similar ornaments and headdresses decorated with floral designs, gold hoop or crescent earrings, choker necklaces, belts, brooches, and rings (Dissecting Mesopotamian Jewelry, par. 17). When the royal tombs of Ur and then the tombs of Nimrud were excavated, a huge quantity of jewels was found. The three sumptuous tombs of Nimrud contained approximately 1,500 jewels. In the royal tombs of Ur, 17 tombs were discovered and excavated and many more jewels were found (Dissecting Mesopotamian Jewelry, par. 7). The tombs of Ur had been neglected by the Scythians and Medes, who raided and stole the Nimrud palace possessions. Although the tombs were missing in 612 BC, Sir Austen Henry Layard later rediscovered them in 1848 but did not dig up the pieces. Finally, in 1988, an architect named Muzahim Mahmud observed some tile floors that appeared to have been dug up, but repositioned. The Nimrud gold was exposed for a short period of time due to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The jewels were then hidden in the basement of the central bank to prevent the pieces from being