Show p Freaks and Oddities In n Science N News eys I A wayside shrine where travelers years ago paused caused to ask the aid of their patron goddess cs is the latest discovery at Ur of the Four thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand years ago the last worshipper AT UR UK went out and left the door half open TOMB OF The imprint of the thc door is Js still there KINGS in the earth The goddess of the thc chapel was as a lit- lit known tie deity Sag Pa called the protector of desert paths The chapel is surprisingly complete and undisturbed undisturbed un- un disturbed since the day it was last used excavations have revealed Various votive olive objects lay about the place In front of the door was a 0 limestone pillar crudely decorated with figures of men and birds In Inthe Inthe the he street outside the shrine lay a terra cotta relief two wo feet high of the footed bull-footed demon who was the regular guardian of the Ule door The tomb of the thc kings is pronounced the finest building yet discovered at Ur The upper rooms intended in- in tended ended for the worship of the dead king were looted in n antiquity for the thc archeologists found fragments of the he leaf lea gold and the mosaic of gold dud and nd lapis lazuli which once adorned the walls and doors The resting places of the kings below have not yet been cleared but holes in the roofs indicate that these there too were invaded probably by bj the thc s who swept down on Ur about 2170 B. B C. C III IA iii I A giant flower that became a gas attack and drove dro a botany class out of its laboratory is described by Professor H. H S. S Conard of Grinnel college The plant lant Is a relative of the calla lily rind nd the Jack- Jack the pulpit but sends its us single stalk flower-stalk to the height of a a. grown man It Is Lo cultivated to a a. small extent as an oddity but is seldom seen in bloom Perhaps Per Per- haps laps fortunately so for it has a most overpoweringly o bad odor when It does open It is commonly called sacred African lily Illy but is neither a a. lily illy nor African and anybody who once smelled it would hesitate to call it sacred I How to keep the dead from walking abroad after alter a burial was as one of the problems of stone age Europeans or more years jears ears ago This is the explanation offered offered of- of by Henr Field curator of THEY TilEY KEPT cal anthropology at the Field Museum DEAD of r Natural History to account for the FROM condition of a prehistoric skelton which WALKING r Tv G has hac Just been received at the museum Toes P of the skeleton were cut off at the he f first i. i joint L before the burial Since several se other skeletons taken from the thc same burial mound in Hungary Hungary Hun Hun- gary ary were ere similarly mutilated Mr Field suggests that hat the neolithic people of that region tried to make it t impossible for forthe the dead de or the spirits spirits' of the dead to o walk Excavators who discovered the skeleton bared only only a small part of or it it and then cut out the solid block of earth arth containing it Mr Field and an assistant have now completed the excavation and pronounce the skeleton to be that of a man about 35 years old I w II Digging on the Island of Lemnos in the Aegean sea the thc Italian archeological institute has bas unearthed a necropolis which appears to be of considerable ance tance archeologically The burials in tn this city cUy of the dead are of a non non-Gr non Greek k race The language Judging from rom thc inscriptions was surprisingly similar to the Etruscan And most of the urns weapons objects of gold and ceramic articles are arc so similar to Etruscan art that the possibility has been suggested that this people belonged to the therace race which later emigrated to Italian Etruria |