ROYAL TOMBS OF UR
FURTHER DISCOVERIES HUMAN SACRIFICES ON BIG SCALE London, February 23. Evidence of human sacrifices on a lavish scale was found in two more roval tombs discovered at Ur of the Chaldees, dating to the fourth millennium before Christ. The builders were apparently familiar with the construction of arches, which the Western World did not adopt until three thousand years later. Against the foot of the king s grave were eleven bodies of women wearing rich head dresses covered with gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian. Two ranks of soldiers' guarded the entrances in copner helmets still on their crushed skulls Queen Shubad’s tomb was the richest vet found She was wearing ten gold finger rings, a cloak entirely covered with beads, fastened at the neck with big gold pins, to which is attached a lapis cylinder . with seals, and alongside a silver pair of cockle shells containing toilet paints and a set of eighteen fluted tumblers. —Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 126, 25 February 1928, Page 9
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162ROYAL TOMBS OF UR Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 126, 25 February 1928, Page 9
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