GOLD RELICS
IN ANCIENT TOMB. INTERESTING DISCOVERIES. FASHIONS OF CHALDEAN WOMEN BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 16. Many gold relics are among the discoveries at Ur of Chaldee, according to the report of a joint expedition. from the British Museum and the Pennsylvania University. A royal prince's grave, dating probably 3500 years before Christ, contained gold headdress, and a gold wig. Nearby were, golden bowls, lamp, beads, ear-rings, rings, silver djaggers with gold hilts, gold mounted spears, many articles of silver and lapis lazuli. Other finds showed that women once wore their hair in a net of woven gpld ribbons, from which hung beads of lapis cornelian; also huge ear pendants. Llater fashion decreed the weaving of ribbons round their tresses, which were looped overhead. Ear-rings were then quite small.— A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 December 1927, Page 5
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138GOLD RELICS Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 December 1927, Page 5
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