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Show Tablets of 3,400 Years Ago Brought to America lit . -1 -:- - 1 I rtLi i W -a? 1 1 J III f- 4 f k I - - la j-ijXf rf 1 One thousand clay tablets, including many letters written upon unbaked clay some 3,400 years ago and neatly addressed to various individuals who Inhabited the vicinity of Kirkuk, Iraq, at that time, have been delivered to the University of Pennsylvania by Dr. Edward Chiera, assistant professor of Assyriology The clay tablets will reveal, it is believed, the complete life history of an ancient people "of whom historians know virtually nothing. The illustration shows one of the excavations at Kirkuk, a specimen of the tablets and a portrait of Doctor Chiera. |