THE GREAT FLOOD

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1934, Page 7

THE GREAT FLOOD

BIBLE STORY CONFIRMED EXCAVATIONS AT UR LONDON, May 3. Unmistakable evidence of the troth of the biblical story of the Great Fiood in Irak has been one of the most important discoveries at Ur of the Chaldees, says tlie Times. Commenting on the fact that after 12 seasons of careful and scientific exploration the joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Penusylvannia has ' completed its labours at Ur, the Times says: “Their work has marked an epoch in archaelogy. For the first time two distinct scientific institutions of two countries have co-operated, and their successive campaigns represent the longest continuous examination of a site that has yet been undertaken. “The excavations have carried back the record to the first human occupation of the Euphrates Valley when Ur was a hamlet in a marsh. The discoveries have illustrated with an astonishing wealth of detail periods formerly known in the barest outline. Abundant light has lxen thrown on the domestic life of the people of Ur 20 centuries before the Christian era,” The excavations showed that a flood of gigantic dimensems—which left lift of silt mt one point near Ur—once overwhelmed the lowlands of Irak and destroyed its settlements.