ANCIENT CIVILISATION
DISCOVERIES IN BABYLONIA. SUMERIAN REMAINS. (Pre» Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) BAGDAD, January 13. Professor Langdon, who is conducting archaeological excavations at Kish, announces important discoveries at a newlyopened site sixteen miles north-east of Kish, the earliest Sumerian site yet found in ancient Akkad. The discoveries include pictographic tablets, older than anything found in Ur of the Chaldees, and a large number of painted pots by the earliest Sumerians, belonging to the age of geometric pottery, alas a number of early Sumerian graves.—Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19687, 14 January 1926, Page 9
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