Show Clue CIlle Offered To Civilization Of Early Crete Did ancient Crew Crete Mediterranean island of gorgeous palaces bullfighting bull fight ing contests feminine fashions fash ash ions and exotic snake worship get got religious ideas from Mesopotamia far faraway faraway away to the cast on the mainland This would appear to be the case Judging by latest British excavations into the mound of Tal five miles from the tho great Mesopotamian city of Nineveh Digging through six successive villages on the mound the archeologists found In one oae house of tho the sixth village a n number of amulets Three of these amulets are shaped like the double ax that was so conspicuous a symbol In Cretan religion The double ax thus appears in northern Mesopotamia about a thousand thousand thou thou- sand years before it was known in Crete for tor the age of ot the house and the rest of the settlement Is estimated at to B. B C. C The excavations at Tal have been conducted by a joint expedition ex cx from the British Museum and the British School of ot Archeology in Iraq Another discovery linking Mesopotamia tamia with Cretan civilization h has been found in a still deeper level of bf f the mound at In the seventh village from the top are remains remains re reo reoma ma mains of circular buildings of stone and clay which once had vaulted roofs These are arc the shape of the I Cretan and Greek hive bee tombs known at Mycenae and nd other sites This Is the first time that such structures have ever been found in Mesopotamia and they are far tar older than the Cretan and Greek beehive tombs which belong to the middle age of ot bronze That tho the curious double ax of Crete might prove to be from western Asia had been suggested by Sir Sit Arthur Evans EvalU whose excavations on the island of Crete brought the palace of King Minos to light |