Show grain turned to charcoal samples of grain found by the chicago field museum oxford university expedition to mesopotamia in 1928 in the ruins of the buried city of kish the first city founded after the hood flood have been declared by experts of the united states department of agriculture to be barley three jars of grain were found in two ancient buildings that bad been buried for thousands of years below the original surface one building was in a stratum just above the level whore where traces of a flood were discovered which according to arche archaeological archeological evidence occurred about B C Q the grain Is now practically pure charcoal new york times |