Milford News | 1930-11-27 | Page 7 | Uncover Buried Cities Lost to Remembrance

Uncover Euried Cities Lost to Remembrance Discovery of new nrcbeological records rec-ords covering approximately P,0O0 years from the earliest days of civilization civil-ization to the time of Christ is reported re-ported by the expedition of the Toledo To-ledo Museum of Art and the University Uni-versity of Michigan, in Mesopotamia. The expedition's findings have been made on the site of Seleucia Opis and Akshak, three ancient cities which flourished inversely in the order or-der named, on a single site on the Tigris river, not far from the city of I'agdad, in I'ersia. They were destroyed, de-stroyed, buried and forgotten. Accounts Ac-counts of the expeditions work were given by the chief excavator. The expedition was organized to establish estab-lish definitely the position of the famous fa-mous city of Opis which Xenophon, in his memoirs, described as prosperous pros-perous and wealthy and as a city of size several centures before Christ. He established the site of Opis, but on top of it found the still more famous fa-mous city of Seleucia, a Hellenistic independent state set up by Seleucus Xicator, favorite general of Alexander Alexan-der the Great. Hardly had Seleucia been rediscovered when the expedition expedi-tion found traces of a third city deeper in the same site which they have identitied as Akshak, a Sumer-icn Sumer-icn occupation dating at least as early as 3,300 years before Christ. Akshak is described as contemporary with the historically important Chaldean Chal-dean city of Ur.