Show UR TOWER 0 W E R RA HAS S BEEN FIXED AS WHEN ABRAHAM ABR A HAM SAW IT Dels hazzara story of it Is coming to university of pennsylvania museum now new york the remains of the 9 great reat tower or agguras at of ur of the Chal dees in lower mesopotamia tins been completely ca cleared anred and Is today the alo most imposing monument in mesopotamia according to a report f from rom 0 leonard woolley made public by the muse museum of the university of pennsylvania by clearing tile flie debris awny anway from froin tile solid inas masonry onry of years yeara igo ago it has been possible according to mr air woolley who la Is in charge of tho the excavation cavat ca lon for tile the british museum and the university of pennsylvania to pa cablish what this ziggurat and ana its sw ter monument the tower of babel vero like when built one of these towers w was AS described by herodotus but ills description Is confusing ani ain little exact knowledge has existed about tho the building before the excavating by tile tho expedition work will be resumed this fall on the ancient buildings surrounding the ho tower one of these Is tile temple of 1 tho the moon god sin made of the earliest type of brickwork dated about years ago tills this and other kuhis in tile tho vicinity go back to tile lie dawn of civilization and are among the earliest buildings known meantime the objects of importance unearthed by the expedition during the last season have been shipped toron to ton T on don and wilt will bo be divided there between tho the british anu museum icum and tile Petin pennsylvania syl museum last year coins wore were nipped flipped to do de aldo tile the ownership of tile tho most important unco objects tile the objects to bo be divided between tho the two museums this year include the earliest dated stone in the wor world id a royal inscription of about K B 0 found in a temple tit at tell HI el abeld near ur there are also a number r of ham and east cost copper figures centuries older than tile the c earliest wrought metal work previously known important gems and pottery will also form part of the american institutions share which will arrive tb this summer tile the great ziggurats like the tower of babol tire are hel believed loved to ile be imitations imitation ns of tho the hills where the Su Sumer lana wo worshiped r their gods before they settled ed in tile tho plain of tigris and euphrates tle the agguras of ur Is the best preserved of these towers earlier excavations disclosed inscribed clay cylinders in which nil bont dus tho the last king of babylon told how flow ho had completed the tower left unfinished by ur r and his big son dangl king of ur at about 2300 B D 0 a compora comparatively late late date in tile the history of ur which had nourished flourished for 2000 yea years r R or more before ur bengur and ills his son dangl however antedated abraham by years 13 BO that patriarch must have seen the tower before lie ho left ur in fact it Is supposed emigrants from ur tools took awny away with the them n tho the worship of tile the moon god stu and transplanted it to mount sinai thus thua giving sinai its name |