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Show Find Treasures of Art ' in Buried Syrian City Rich srcheologtca! discoveries have been made by the French mission which, under the command of M. Shaffer, of the Strasburg Prehistoric museum, is excavating ancient deposits at Mlnet-eJ-Batda end Has Sbamnia, In Syria. . The most Important of these finds Is the unearthing at fins Sham-ma Sham-ma ot a number of baked clay tiles bearing cuneiform inscriptions, which are believed to be about 4,000 years old and to have constituted part of s great library. . A burled city which Is now being explored ex-plored on the same site has yielded among other treasures s gigantic granite gran-ite bust apparently -of Egyptian origin, and bronze objects engraved with cuneiform characters, which their discoverers dis-coverers claim are the best preserved in existence. . Finds of almost equal importance have been mode at Mlnet-el-Baida, 4.000 years old. Around these tombs were tables bearing offerings to the dead, numerous numer-ous Egyptian statuettes In bronze enriched en-riched with precious stones, a golden diadem, necklace, and numerous pieces of fine pottery. |