Show D T I 1 lCt fl i bes ro grave I 1 braves r T yo descove discovered red at ur explorer tells of treasures f found in mesopotamia th alio cl first report of joint expedition or of tile tho ih museum ind and tin tho university of pennsylvania in tile the work of excavating nt ur of tilt Chuld ceH lu in during till tho present sel season tison lius been made public and contains interesting and important archaeological information of tile work being abeln performed in tile tho land WI wro history lity lory ditwiler dit wiled tile the report was aris inure hy by 0 leoward woolley Vo olly til dl rector of tile tho joint expedition tho most laborious lubor loiis tusk task the report stated was vas of tile mosses masses of debris surrounding tile the ZIgg linit or sto ged tower tile walls of tile annin structure set up by UrEn gur bout gibout au 13 C are wonderfully preserved in ill all acro Is tto tio pro christian monument so imposing ns lis the of ur tile report stated oldest graves of all for tho the first time affine wo we have been ablo to learn tile alio rent character of the site alte and to recover in good condition tion of the liston I 1 works of art rt which it conceals said the report up to tile present two distinct parts 1 oatlie of the site have beon been attacked a beine tery ais nud tile on oil which doctor noil all worked the graves are probably th the 0 o earliest eur liest yet found in tills this country dating from tile the fifth all and early fourth MI lle fillia 11 0 aie the people na whoever ho were nt at least in part yu Sun merlan ierlan were still using lf many lally stone implements but were none tile loss less bulte familiar with copper wid und lind had developed great skill in lag ing and casting the metal but side by side with implements of oc lint anti and copper we fin land copies of tho i saine anine tit pottery showing that both anu rials being imported ported liu from froin a distance were sufficiently valuable to make ma ice certain people grudge thein bliem to the dead apu handmade hand made pottery found pottery Is fortso for alio most part wheel made but bul liand band inalle wares lint had riot not wholly disappeared anti and painted pot tery recalling that found in tile early strata of tile thu ruins of susa was wa in u uso 1 1 0 at the be inning of the period though eliou li it seems benni tty to have beon been ousted luter later by the types A tho dolid were laid sonje nt at full length sometimes in tho the contracted or embryonic position many were in acro aneio troughs cut in the hard soil soll sonia were in clay urns oval pr or such ng as continued in use throughout all babylonian history most of the bones had bad decil decayed away hut but a fow few skulls and ono complete skeleton have been recover recovered pd and should provo of no small interest in studying tile tho origins of tho the Su morlan race tha bull building ding lies iles close to the conic tery on the top of tile tho mound aro are the security rein of a put up liy by dangl tile the second king of the third thild thil d dynasty clyn naty of ur who reigned about 2250 11 C tills replaced an n curlier building which stood on a terraced plat pint form forill of mud brick a building about widell which we vo can only say that it quite probably dated to tilt the second dynasty b misty of ur temple of the goddess entirely burled below the ho terrace floors UPS lies tile building which doctor llull first discovered A lucky caunce lins has brou glit to light a tablet recording its foundation and wo learn that it was tile temple le of tile goddess set up tit by king an air annl an nl ril pad nn son of king mea inies an nand ril alad da king of the first dynasty of ur tho scribes who soon after 13 0 drew up tip a list of the lie kings of sinner or abild nd akkad have left it ori on rec ord that the kal kings 9 s who reigned linnio ignio dontely after tha alib flood were those of kish nikl and thi th years of their reigns would put alch to shanie shame then caine tile second dynasty that tant of erech by the like incredible longevity and third from the hood flood la Is put tile first dynasty of ur this dynasty like the two that pr pre ceded it lias has com been regarded na lin mythical its rulers were assigned no inore thaia normal length of power but nothing was known of thern them anti anil hoy were vore werely merely names mimes in a schematic list a lend reckoning basis on oil the king lists would put their into somewhere about 13 0 C and kumoi ann history property properly speaking could not be carried back much beyond II 11 0 toll HI BI abeld has produced not only the lie oldest dated document yet known but a contemporary record proving tile hie real existence of these shadowy kings to tills this antiquity belongs the reruns remarkable kable series of objects of art which adorned its walls and have fortunately tuna tely survived to the present day in Y embedded in tile debria of tile the temple ond and hermetically sealed scaled up tip below five or six feet of tile alio hardest mud brick I 1 have over ever encountered |