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...about 4500 B. C., is the oldest building in the world still standing above ground, according to a report from Dr. C. Leonard Woolley, director of the joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum, which is excavating in the region of Ur in lower Babylonia (TiME, April 28, July 9, Dec. 31). The temple, located at Tell el Obeid, four miles from Ur, was first unearthed some months ago, but its excavation has now been completed, carrying back the known history of Sumeria a thousand years into legendary ages. With an age of over...
...Babylonia. The joint expedition of Oxford University and the Field Museum, Chicago, under Prof. S. Langdon, has uncovered the ruins of Kish, an early capital of the Accadian kings, eight miles east of the site of Babylon, including the great tower of the temple to the war god Ilbaba, built about...
William Walcott, whose daring experiments, with color and impressionism in his pictures of ancient temples in Ephesus and Babylonia have caused a sensation in London art circles, is well known in the streets of London because of his long beard. Wherever he goes he is assailed with loud cries of "Beaver...
Archaeological activities in the Yucatan, Ethiopia, Thebes, Babylonia, two of the Chaldees, Sardis, Bethany, Carthage and the two Lodoses...
...story: responsibilities aboard-ark must have made it difficult for him to scan the horizon with full care. Perhaps an unnoticed house-top floated away with a pair of lucky occupants to another valley, saving the Sumerian branch of the family to carry on the tradition in Babylonia...