ANCIENT BABYLONIA
EARLY RECORDS REVEALED EXCAVATIONS CONTINUED CITY OF ABRAHAM'S TIMES By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Jan. 4, 7.35 p.m. London, Jan. 3. The Anglo-American expedition has resumed excavations at Ur of the Chaldees, and has unearthed numerous tablets giving lists of square roots of numbers up to 60. Hymns and records of the early kings were discovered. The excavations reveal for the first time the appearance of a eity in Abraham’s times. The ruins show narrow streets, filled with comfortable twostoreyed houses, resembling the best houses in modern Baghdad. As it was a custom to bury the dead beneath the houses, many discoveries'are reported of clay coffins hi brick tombs, with food in variotrs vessels.
An unusual discovery was a lopg narrow room in Number 7 of a quiet street, containing an altar and 30 bowls filled with the bones of children. It is believed to have been a shrine dedicated to a diety kindly to children,- to which the relatives brought their, infants for burial.
Ur is a city and district of ancient Babylonia, modern Mukazzar, about 135 miles south-east of Babylon, on the Euphrates River,.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1927, Page 7
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