BURIED CITY OF UR

Evening Star, Issue 18239, 2 April 1923, Page 8

BURIED CITY OF UR

LONDON, March 16. Excavations have begun at, Ur of tho Chaldees in Mesopotamia for records of Abraham, and also to recover the' world's oldest and finest library of original works in history, religion, art, law, and science written 5.000, and possibly, 10,000 yearn a -°; The search Isays the Bagdad correspondent of the London ' Daily Mail ’) may yield a w:ii,by new story of Urn inception of tho religious movement that prepared the world for Christianity, .and may corroborate the story of Genesis, It has been discovered that the, Persian conquerors under Darius, after destroying tho city of Dr. laid pavements over the principal buildings. Tablets have been found telling tho sV-y of the daily lives of the kings, leaders, merchants, and slaves; also tiny leave of gold which were, set on tho lips of the. dead ; fragmentary fculptureo reveal Dm personality of the residents and emblems of the worship of the “moon-god.” Ur was a Sumerian city near tho Shat el-Hai confluence with the Euphrates, South .Babylonia. Its dynasty was founded bv Ur-Eugur about 2,450 u. 0., and ho was tV. first to he styled King of burner and Akkad. Situated then at the Euphrates-Tigris mouth it Ksis its importance as tho Persian Gulf silled up and tide-water became too distant. Already excavations have unearthed tho house of Er-Engur and t emple archives dating from Ashurbatiipal's to Xerxes's day. “Chaldea’’ is the Greek form of tho cnneifoim “ Kahili," the capita] of which was at Bit A’akin. One of its kings captured Babylon about 721 n.r. and held it. until driven out by bargon 11. The earliest settlement in tho “ Kaldu ” area was Ur, mentioned in Genesis ii.