Show Uncover Buried Burled Cities Lost to Remembrance Discovery of new v archeological records rec ree orals ortIs covering approximately years y from the earliest days dos of ot to the time of ot Christ Is reported re reo ported by the expedition of the Tol Toledo To To- l lobo ledo do Museum of Art and the of Michigan In Mesopotamia The expeditions expedition's findings have been made on the site of Opts and three ancient cities which flourished Inversely ID In the order order or or- der named on a single site lite on the Tigris river not far for from the city of ot Bagdad In Persia They were destroyed destroyed de de- strayed burled and forgotten Accounts Accounts Ac Ac- Accounts counts of ot the expeditions work were given by the chief excavator The expedition was organized to establish establish lish definitely the pO position of the famous famous fa fa- fa city of Opts which Xenophon In his memoirs described as prosperous prosperous pros pros- and wealthy w and as a city of ot size several before Christ I IIII He lie established the site of Opts Ople but buton buton buton on top of ot It found the still sUII more famous fa fa- city of a Hellenistic Independent state set up by favorite general of Alexander Alexan der the Great Hardly had been rediscovered when the found traces of a third city deeper In the same site which the they have Identified as a Sumer Ian occupation dating at least as early as years ears before Christ Is described as ns contemporary with the historically Important Chaldean Chal dean city of ot Ur |