Show uncover buried cities lost to remembrance discovery of new arche archaeological archeological records covering cohering approximately years from the earliest cur liest das lays s of civilization to tile the time of christ Is reported by the expedition of the toledo museum Ilus eurn of art and the university of michigan in mesopotamia the expeditions expedit lons findings have been made on the site of Sel eucla opts and akshay three ancient cities which flourished inversely ler sely in the order named on a single site on the tigris river not far from froin the alie city of bagdad in persia they were destroyed ae st royed burled ann led and forgotten accounts of the expeditions work were given by tile the chief excavator tile the expedition was organized organ led to estat definitely tile the position of tile the famous city of opts which xenophon in his memoirs described as prosperous and wealthy and as a city of ste size several censures cen tures before christ lie ile established tile the site of opts but on top of it found the still more famous city of Sel eucla a hellenistic independent state set up by Se leucus Ni cator favorite general of alexander the great hardly had Selen selencia cla been rediscovered when the expedition found traces of a third city dee perIn the same site which they have halve identified as ahsoak it a occupation dating tit at least as early as years before christ akshay Is described as contemporary with the historically important chaldean city of ur |