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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22068, 26 September 1933, Page 10

Excavators in Iraq who are -working there for the British Museum, have found a round granary containing a store of wheat. This was discovered among the mudbrick dwellings below a mound at Tal Arpachipah, a village four miles east of Nineveh, and one of the earliest human settlements in Mesopotamia. The wheat is 7000 years old. Pottery with good geometrical designs painted in., red , and black has been discovered, and the experts say that it is equal to the best pottery of classical Greece. Jewellery and terracotta ornaments in the shape of an ox s head have also been found. The head of the ox is often referred to in the Bible as a symbol of strength, and it is interesting to find it as a symbol used by j thase ancient people. I