SAVANT IS EXPLORING THE TEMPLE OF NABU
LONDON. ■ Tho British Museum expedition under Dr. E. Campbell Thompson is now exploring around- Sennacherib’s Palace at Nineveh. Writing from Mosul to the “Times” of the Temple of Nabu where he is working, Dr. Thompson says he is excavating well outside tho previously discovered nerimeter.. ‘“lt may be” he acids, “that as so little was found -within the area, a greater part of . the contents were cast outside the walls. It may even be that -we still have to dig out the shrine. ’ ’ This shrine, it will be recalled, is presumably tho one referred to in the Old Testament as where Sennacherib: e.ndccl his - career after vainly marching Against Jerusalem when in .Byron’s words “The Assyrian came, down like a wolf on the fold. ”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 2
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