Show discoveries IN BABYLONIA according to an account I 1 li a the loudon do times the oldest city in the world has been unearthed me haynes haynee in charge of 0 the amerious Amer Ame ioan rions expedition engaged in excavating the mounds of nufler io in northern baby lonia to is said to lu nave have discovered its if foundations it la in claimed that the result of his labors iii that nas lass been found to date back to sia a a an equity never of the mounds of cuffar are described as sig actuated on the bast dank bank of filial TZ in nil once the main waterway between babylon and mo me ponlan Pdt ilian ciale but BOW dry otis oae of the moulle n oy the araos called blot blobel ol amir the abird daughter aul it was the site or of the grat grast tower built by ut jr about 2800 B C 0 too explorations of mr at bayous were among the vast vaai ruina oi this building he H found tuat toai the be arrangement of the ower and temple bre a m rt jet striking resemblance to the early pyramids pyram lda of F sapt and a ad f ajr r vat u 8 r a aso in h ha a la Is inclined to the tas view that thas it la is no longer a question of chaldean Chaldea a influence over egyptian civilization but bus the re verae the account an aa condensed fox for opinion gob goals on to aa the tower rests upon a massive breeb platform of crude brick nearly the whole ot of these brick were inscribed and bore the stamps of sargon I 1 and aaram sin his non aon and its date therefore to ie just juat a thousand years yeara prior to the build ings ot of ur gur namely B 0 2800 from rom the inscriptions of both these kinge we w know that they both built large portions t ions of an older temple of mul mui UL proof of the great buildings of barg and his son is afforded by some excavations to the northwest of the temple here was a lin line 0 of mounds which marked a rampart and mr haynes in 1895 cleared a portion of it and unearthed one ot of the most extraordinary pieces of mall masonry onry ever discovered the found sh tion lion consisted of a solid bed of clay mixed with straw and down resembling some of the constructions construct iona found by dr Sohl lemann at upon this foundation and plinth wae constructed a solid brick wall fifty two teet feet in thickness and rising to an unknown height the builder of this wall wait was aaram sin whom so 60 many have regarded as a mythical king but considerably below the upper strata of the soil were found the evi dances of an older than ban here bare exposed to view below tae pavement of niram wore were remains of two temples with the altar and holy ot of hollee holies enterA entered 46 it to supposed only by the there were also aio this the tango tw for cation and water 1 with some mine receptacle bolo below over twenty six tablets tablet so well aa numerous inscribed frag of jawand vans and stela have also been ba r m covered from this hr site oft all of records record relate to a arles film of 01 wars van and are supposed to be the oldest elden historical record known of the real age of the buildings building here unearthed no definite idea can be given archaeologists are sometimes to ascribe to the many monuments of ancient civilization now being unearthed a hither higher antiquity than facts and cor erectly evi evidence derice warrant to them that the slowly alowis work ing laws jaw of evolution require mil instead of centuries for certain in nature and biG history tOrY forgetting it seems that in both bolh these nolde not only odly OvO evolution lution but also albo revolution mut must be counted an ai a factor one thing however in the latest discoveries in the babylonian mounds may be worth while bearing in mind if it to made probable that we be civilization of babylon baby loo la Is ina a branch of that of egypt dr lie le Plon geon would in thle this zoos fot probably find and one more support for the theory he has baa advocated lately viz via that the cradle of civilization blood on this continent and that its ito course was wai eastward atward ea from rum here bore over a 8 now Im immersed merged country to africa and particularly to egypt |