EXCAVATIONS IN KISH.
■ Important discoveries. |' MORE ANCIENT THAN UR. fßy Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) * - . yg- 4 (Received 2 p.m.) }4 BAGDAD, January 12. Professor Langdon, who is conducting Archaeological excavations at Kish, announces important discoveries at a newly-opened site 16 miles north-east of Kisb, the earliest Sumerian site yet found in ancient Accad. The discoveries include pictographic tablets older than anything found in Ur or Chaldea, and a large number of painted pots used by the earliest Sumerians belonging to the age of geometric pottery; also a number of early Suuietian graves.— (Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 13 January 1926, Page 8
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