EXCAVATIONS IN BABYLON
INTERESTING DISCOVERIES
(By Eleotrio Teiegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Aeeociatiou.)
LONDON, 3rd Jan
. The Anglo-American expedition resumed excavations at ' Ur of the Chaldees, and unearthed numerous tablets giving lists of square root numbers up to sixty; also hymns and records of early kings. The ruins show narrow streets filled with comfortable, twostoreyed houses resembling the best houses in modern Baghdad. As it was the custom to bury the dead beneath houses, many discoveries are reported of clay coffins in brick tombs, with food in various vessels.
An unusual discovery was a long narrow room in No; 7 of a quaint.street, containing an altar and 30 howls filled with the bones of children. It is believed to have been a shrine dedicated to a deity kindly to children, to which re&tives brought infants for burial.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 5 January 1927, Page 5
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