UR OF THE CHALDEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 78, 2 April 1923, Page 5

UR OF THE CHALDEES.

SEARCH FOR RECORDS OF ABRAHAM. LONG-DEAD CITY. / LONDON. March 21. Kx.-avations have begun at l"r of the Chaldees in Mesopotamia for records of Abraham there, and also to recover the world's oldest and finest library of original works in history, religion, art. law. and science written .",.0(1(1, and possibly 10,000. years ago. The search (say« the Hag-dad correspondent of the London "Daily Mail") may yield a wholly new siory of the inception of the religious movement that prepared the world for Christianity, and may corroborate the s'ory of Cencsis. It has been discovered that the Persian conquerors under Darius, after destroying Ihe city of Cr. laid pavements over the principal buildings. Tablets have been found telling the story of the daily lives of the kings, leaders, merchants, and s!a\es: also liny leaves of gold which were set on the lips of the dead: fragmentary sculptures reveal the personality of tlie residents and emblems of -he worship of the "moon-god." Ir was a Sumerian city near the Miat-el-Hai confluence wilh the Kuphrate-s, South Babylonia. .Its dynas'.y wafounded by' I'r-Engur about -2450 H.C. and he was the first to be styled King of Sumer and Akkad. Situated then at the F.uphrates-Tieris mouth, it lost its importance as the Persian (ililf silted up and tidewa".cr oceanic tor distant. Already excavations have unearthethe house of l-'.r Kngur and tempi, archives dating from Ashurbanipal's t( Xerxes' day. ••( balden" is the flreek form of ih cuneiform "Koldu." tin- capital of whirl was at Bit Yakin. One of its kings car Hired Habylon about 7*21 H.C .. and lielc i*. until driven out by Sargon 11. The earliest settlement in the "Kaldu" arc: was Cr. mentioned in (bencsis 11. FRIGHTENED WITNESS. DEATH RATHER THAN TESTIFY TXIXDON. March 21. To., frightened to attend the inquest on the wife of a Newport butcher, win died suspiciously from poison. Kthei Andrew-, a girl wanted as a witness by the police, drowned herself. Her mother states she was depressed when she received the subpoena. The document was found on th- body when it was recovered from -.he river. DAVIS CUP DRAW. AUSTRALIA TO MEET HAWAII VAN, ,11'YF.T!. March 22. Australia will meet Hawaii, auc I I aiiadn will meet Japan iv the firs j round of ihe Dm is (up. < 7<* -bo-Movakii i will meet Switzerland. India will mc-,-' i Ireland, ,'mime will meet Denmark j Spain will meet Rumania, and Knglanc will meet l'clgiitm. Italy. Holland, an I the Argentine drew lives. I ■ i