Show grain turned to charcoal samples of geln found by the achl cago held museum oxford university expedition to mesopotamia in 1928 in the ruins of the burled city of elsh the first city founded after the flood have been declared by experts of the united states department of ture to be barley three jars of grain cre found in two indent buildings that had been burled for thousands of years below the original surface one building was in a stratum just above the level where traces of a flood nere discovered which according to evidence occurred about B C the grain Is now practical ly pure charcoal ew york times |