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Perhaps Abraham, the father of his country, really did emigrate from Ur of Chaldea. And Noah might have been confused in his 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...
...June the heat became so intense that the work was transferred to the eastern part of the temple area, where the excavations which had been suspended in '96, were renewed. The level of Ur Gur was first reached and later a large piece of the Naram Sin pavement was exposed. The statues found were all broken, which goes to confirm the idea that probably in the third century B. C. the temple was sacked. Besides the statues many valuable inscriptions were found on pieces of marble and brick...
...Society needs, at once, for spring ur chases of stock, a considerable sum of money which is now represented by its very large stock of books...
...Society needs, at once, for spring ur chases of stock, a considerable sum of money which is now represented by its very large stock of books...
...Assyrian Archaeology. The beginning of Babylonian art can be traced to the earliest historical period of Babylon, about 4000 B. C. From that period on we possess inscriptions for nearly every century from colossal temples and statues. Northern Babylonia was the first art centre, but in the third milennium Ur, in Southern Babylonia became the centre. There came a third period when the North was again the seat of artisti life, which gradually declined in vigor up to the capture of Babylon by the Assyrians. There was again a short revival during the hundred years when Babylon freed herself from...