Show uncover uncover burled buried cities lost to remembrance discovery of now new rec orda covering approximately years from the earliest lays days of civilization to the time of christ Is reported by the expedition of the toledo museum of art and the university of michigan in mesopotamia the expeditions undines have hare been made on the site of Sel eucla opts and A ashak three ancient cities which flourished inversely tit in the or der named on a single site on the tigris river not far fron from the alie city of bagdad in persia ersla Il they were destroyed st burled buried and forgotten accounts of the lie expeditions work were given by the chief excavator the alie expedition was organized to establish definitely the position of the famous in otis city of opts alch which xenophon in his memoirs described as prosperous and wealthy and as it a city of size several cen censures tures before christ ile ho established the alto of apis but on top of it found the still more famous city of a hellenistic independent state set up tip by Se leucus favorite general of alexander the great hardly had Sel Se eucla leucia been rediscovered when the expedition found traces of a third city deeper in the same site alto which they have identified as Ak akshay slink n R sumer tan lan occupation dating nt at least ns as early as years before christ akshay Ali slink Is described as contemporary with the historically important chaldean city of ur |