MESOPOTAMIAN TREASURES.
EARLIEST POTTERY KNOWN. LOKDOX, April 21. Baedad reports state that some of the most valuable =al treasures, jointly excavated at Ur of the fTialdees by the, University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum, lost to the excavators through the peremptory allotment of the Bagdad Museum. The latter ,thus possesses Ur treasure value exceeds all the rest combined. It is a large inlaid plaque representing a milkng scene dating 6000 years back. Bagdad likeirise receives the -6000-year-old gold scarab seal of King Annipada and
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 95, 22 April 1924, Page 5
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