Show DIG UP TOWER ai AS LARGE AS BABYLON discovered by scientists in ancient kith kih I 1 chicago D CL davies director of the field museum received a report from the scientists of the field museum and oxford university who are unearthing temples and towers in the vast ruins of 0 the ancient city of kish with a corps of dien men prof stephen langdon Is attacking tin an enor enormous group of 0 mounds in what was ventral central kish when the city flourished as the capital of the worlds earliest cur liest civilization there preliminary excavations irv have uncovered lie he reni of 0 nt at least airee three temples and two lowers tile hie latter as large its as tle the historic tower of babylon Hu bylon the report states stairs A mystery statue of a headless woman with hands clasped in a manner unlike that of the previously knon riall cu custom stoin was found in the d debris abri 8 of on one e of the towers on the back of the right shoulder of the figure Is engraved an inscription in seven lines of which the first two wo ore are hopelessly eroded will while the script indicates the pre period and points to tile the age of tile the late kingdom of kish 28 2850 U P 0 C the style of dress indicates a later period professor Iro fessor langdon stated |