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REVEALED IN EXCAVATIONS. EXPEDITION’S VALUABLE DISCOVERIES. APPEARANCE OP CITY IN ABRAHAM’S TIME. Received Januarv 4, 8.40 p.m ; (Times). LONDON, Jan. 3. The Anglo-American expedition resumed excavations at Ur and unearthed numerous tablets giving lists of square root numbers—up to sixty, also hymns and records of early kings. The excavations reveal for the first time the appearance of a city in Abraham’s time. Ruins show narrow streets filled with comfortable two-storeyed houses resembling the best houses in modern Bagdad. As it was the custom to bury the dead beneath the 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 number seven of a quiet street, containing an altar and thirty bowls filled with the bones of children. It is believed that it has been a shrine dedicated to a deity kindly to children, to which relatives brought infants for burial.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19737, 5 January 1927, Page 7
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