Show uncover burled buried cities lost to remembrance discovery of new arel eo logical rec ree covering approximately 5 tears jears from the earliest davs days of civil to the time of christ Is re ported by the expedition of the to ledo museum of art and the versify of All Michl chigin gin in mesopotamia the rhe expedition expeditions s findings have been made on the site of selencia Se Sel leucia eucla opts and akshay three ancient cities which flourished inversely in the or der named on a single site on the tigris river not far from the city 1 of bagdad in persia they were de stroked burled and forgotten ac counts of the expedit expeditions lons work nork were given glien by the chief excavator the expedition was organized to lish definitely the position of the ta fa city of opts which xenophon in his memoirs described as pros berous and wealthy and as a city of size several censures cen tures before christ he ile established the site of apis but on top of it found the still more fa city of selencia Se Sel leucia eucla a hellenistic independent state set up by Se leucus nicifor favorite general of alexan der the great hardly had Se Sel leucia eucla been rediscovered wien wl en tie tl e tion found traces of a third city deeper ia in the same site which they have identified as ahsoak a sumer lan ian occupation dating at least as early as years before christ akshay Is described as contemporary with the historically important chal dean city of ur |