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...Abraham, ancestor of the Israelites, came from Ur...
...Babylon, excavations have proceeded as never before. British and University of Pennsylvania diggers continued turning up the wonders of Ur of the Chaldees. Their finding of the great ziggurat or tower, the temple of the moon god and the temple of Nin-Gal, wife of the moon god, was reported in TIME, March...
...York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Jim Fisk was a tin peddler from Pownal, Vt. Not he, but Daniel Drew, sold watered stock at the Bull's Head Tavern. Selling watered live stock by weight was an old trick when Mesopotamian cowboys used to trade, in the wine-rooms, at Ur of the Chaldees. It is much if you do not mix up Daniel Drew* with John Drew.† Jim Fisk&** with John Fiske.†† NEWELL MARTIN...
...Babylonia, at Ur of the Chaldees, the joint British Museum-University of Pennsylvania expedition continued to exhume the architectural works of Nebuchadnezzar, his ancestors and his grandson. The major find was a limestone slab, 5 by 15 ft., decorated with a portrait and biographic scenes of King Ur-Engur, builder of the huge ziggurat of Ur or Moon God's tower. The date of the slab was put at 2300 B. C., its historic importance being equaled only by its value as a specimen of Sumerian...
About 2,000 B.C., Abraham ("father of multitudes") was the Patriarch of the Hebrews ("those from the other side"?they came from Ur in Baby- lonia). Abraham had two sons: Ishmael by Hagar (ancestor of the Ismaelites or Arabians), Isaac by Sarah ("princess"). Isaac married Rebekah and they begat Jacob called Israel, the ancestor of the Jews. His male progeny became the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel...