LIFE IN 4000 B.C.
DISCOVERIES AT UR. HUMAN SACRIFICE AND VANITY CASE. LONDON, Feb. 23. Evidence of human sacrifice on a lavish scale was found in two more royal tombs discovered at Ur of the Chaldees, dating to the fourth millennium before Christ. The builders were o 0000 oo C 000000 W ekO .‘a 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 copper helmets still on their crushed skulls. Queen Shubad’s tomb was the richest yet 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.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6543, 27 February 1928, Page 11
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