UR OF THE CHALDEES.
the city revealed. AS IN ABRAHAM’S DAY. LIKE MODERN BAGDAD. FAMILY TOMBS BENEATH HOMES. (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). London. Jan. 3. The Anglo-American expedition resumed its excavations at Lr of the Chaldees and unearthed many tablets giving lists of square-root numbers up to 60, and also hymns and records of early kings. The excavations reveal for the first Mine the appearance of the city in Abraham’s time. The ruins show narrow streets fillt-d with eomfortlabie two-storeved houses resembling the best, houses in Bagdad. As it was the custom to bury the dead beneath the house's, many discoveries are reported of day coffins in • brick tombs', with food in various vessels.
' An nnusual discovery was a Ion", .narrow room in No. 7 of a quiet street. The room contained an altar and 30 howls fdled with tlte bones of children. It is believed to have been a shrine dedicated to a deity .kindly to children, to which relatives brought infants for burial.
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Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 991, 5 January 1927, Page 5
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165UR OF THE CHALDEES. Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 991, 5 January 1927, Page 5
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