STORY OF THE FLOOD.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20281, 16 April 1934, Page 1

STORY OF THE FLOOD.

Excavations at Ur Confirm Bible. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, April 13 J Commenting on the fact that after ; twelve seasons of scientific exploration j the joint expedition of the British I Museum and the University of Pennsyli vania has completed its labours at l r of the Chaldees, “The Times” says that the work done has gained much for archaeology. “For the first time,” says The Times,” “ two distinct scientific investigations of the two countries have cooperated, and their successive campaigns represent the longest continuous excavation of the site that las yet been undertaken. Their excavations have carried back the first human occupation of the Euphrates Yalley to the day when Ur was a hamlet in a marsh, and their discoveries have illustrated with astonishing wealth of detail periods formerly known only in the barest outline. Abundant light has been thrown on the domestic life of the people of many centuries before the Christian era. I “Of even greater importance has ; been the unmistakable confirmation of ! Biblical traditions that a flood of gigantic dimensions, which left eleven feet ! of silt at one point near Ur, once over* | whelmed the lowlands of Iraq and desl troyed its settlements.’