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DISCOVERED IN MESOPOTAMIA. (Rec. January 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 19. A report issued by the British Museum authorities on the excavations at. Ur of the Chaldees and other sites in Mesopotamia, states that a marble tablet has been discovered, inscribed m Sumerian, recording the names of the goddess and builder of the temple. The report proceeds’: “Taken at face value, the Sumerian chronology would assign our statues and reliefs to a date about 4500 years before Christ. Even if the chronology has to be modified we can yet say our work has given us the oldest dated example of man’s handwriting anad the oldest known triumphs of the art of Tubal Cain.”— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 98, 21 January 1924, Page 7
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