Word: nasr
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Scrabbling at the bottom of a great pit 50 ft. deep, the diggers bared a necropolis of 200 graves which they ascribed to the Jemdet Nasr period, nearly four millennia before Christ. Despite the pilferings of ancient vandals, countless beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian, crystal, shell, marble, chalcedony and gold still encircled the necks and hips of crumbling skeletons with tightly bent legs. Up two long flights of steps carved by sweating natives in the clay walls of the pit were carried 770 vessels of alabaster, gypsum, limestone, diorite. and some of copper, all buried long before the Patriarch Abraham...