Show discoveries IN AS ASSYRIA SYRIke A london correspondent of the now new york sun tells tella of the wonder rul ful discoveries by A amendo anti and be 4 lish at nipper where different appear to be buried la in atle various strata aerated rated one beneath etke others other and testifying to the very ancion ancient ielli origin of many canny arts aud scie aces tue toe work has baa been bedim the post five years u ider tue aus of the U at al versify of Peno sylvanis and the he results obtained are regarded as of inestimable inea ea value to he students atud eata tp of f his tory and sociology A authority oo on assyrian aroi loga dam not hesitate heel taie to 10 state shot hat ws we have la in our poe Berlon not dot merely one isolated hoisted fragment but scores of chapters of old world history strictly contemporary writings which cannot be assigned to a later date then than years year before the he christian era and ana that this shia la in a fact which cannot be disputed by any thoughtful student the account of the most moat recent discoveries co veries at nipper Is ie as an follow the site of the city to Is marked by a great group of mounds called by th the arabs to this day cuffar but a slight alight variation of the old name the great mound of binl bin el amir agirs daughter which forms the acropolis acro polia of this site la Is the ruins of the stage tower of the temple of kulil ghost god ot of baby lonia one ot of the most moat ancient of the temples of df chaldea older by far than babylon itself which did not become a capital until about B C 2200 mr HIS haynes nos has labored for live five years and lail laid bare with expedition the ruins of at least four cities and settlements and has recovered over inscribed records the great temple tower which formed the center around which all theother the other buildings are grouped was built of bricks bearing the name and titles of a king named ur bau already known to us as an the builder of the stage tower at or ur of the Chal dees the date of this monarch is about B C 2700 and he appears to have been the first monarch to 0 build these great stage to towers wern in constructing his temple and tower upon a massive platform ur bau had to remove and level the debris of a former city which had been destroyed many years before in penetrating through this debris numbers of bricks and tablets and fragments of Imeri inscribed bed vases were found which had bad been broken up when the city was sacked and at length a second still more massive pavement was wars reached this pavement was composed of very large bricks bearing the names of sargon and his son BOD aaram sin bin whose date is in ascertained to be B C passing beneath this pavement the explorers explorer sank bealts until they reached the virgin soil which was found at a depth of thirty five feet beneath the second pavement in doing this they famed through two iwo primitive settlements the oldest of which judging by the amount of accumulated debris above it and its primitive character cannot be assigned to a later bater period than about B C awo and marvelous maive loui am ai thee theae a discoveries are the theory advanced as to the high antiquity 01 the records found does not as lar for as ue the account of their descove ry shows ahoff appear well established the argument seems to be that thousands of 3 years eare necessarily had to Int interment ervent the various strata in ID which the be evidences ot of civilization were da die coveted but that this reasoning is in not always conclusive I 1 is a matter easily demonstrated in many madem artles guilton the rules of more ancient ones onee destructive wars the elements elemente seismic ermio disturb disturbance aDeer often accomplish in ID a brief day radical on the earths surface sur lace that tb the remains of a paver pavement deat or maricus utensils ute neils and records are loudd found thirty five lost feel below the surface no cone eiva uve tive of will accept as ae conclusive proof that they zero were placed there here say 1000 years aa BRO 0 bome ether evlo ence would be rt required quiren lot loche the establish mena ol of a fact ol of much great feat importance the biblical chronology is by all admitted to grave difficulties and scholars ach olare may not lave have succeeded in establishing a complete and perfect chain of chronological data from the opening events of the acred sacred volume down to the present time but so BO lar jar neither aronse nor geology b has 8 been in a position po eltion to furnish any more mor reliable information on that subject that civilization dates far back li ii to antiquity la Is a fact well established by all 11 recent discoveries aud and the evident conclusion from this would seem to be that the sacred acred historians oe are right in representing our not as ae inferior beings but as aa highly developed both mentally and otherwise |