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Show World's Oldest City Had Huge War Tower Described in Bible PHILADELPHIA. Imagine Imag-ine the same warfare tactics used for three thousand years! It is hard to believe in this age of inventive speed. That time amazingly stood still In tills way in ancient Bible lands is revealed by latest excavations at that famous site, "the oldest city In the world," Tepe Gawra in Mesopotamia. Mesopo-tamia. Searchers Find Ruins. A joint expedition of the University Univer-sity museum, University of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, and the American School of Oriental Research at Baghdad, lias found ruins of a big round temple-tower at Tepe Gawra. The sweep of an almost perfect circle of brick foundations GO feet In diameter di-ameter has been unearthed. Outlines Out-lines of 17 rooms can be traced. This big round house was built about 4000 B. C. The field director of the expedition, expedi-tion, Charles Bache, Identified this as a fortress because of thick walls, single entrance, and stone weapons still lying In some of the rooms. It has temple features, too, suggested by the plan of the central rooms. The discovery turns archeologlsts to Bible history, where King Abl-melech's Abl-melech's wild and warlike reign ended end-ed In a fight at just such a temple-tower. temple-tower. That happened In Palestine, a little over a thousand years before Christ. |
