Show SHOVELS REWRITE D ix FE I 1 W RITE STO STORY OF FLOOD excavations now show it was local affair philadelphia picks and shovels ot of modern arche archaeological archeological expeditions are rewriting the biblical study of 0 the flood on the banks ot of the ancient euphrates in mesopotamia A series of moving pictures taken by the university ot of pennsylvania museum expedition under the lead of 0 dr 0 leonard woolsey Wool scy were brought to the museum by doctor woolsey and exhibited to the public these show that the biblical recital of the rising waters which eliminated the races ot of the euphrates ph rates Is a legend recounted by succeeding generations of 0 the As syrians long before the jews incorporated corp orated it into their old testament doctor woolsey said excavations of the expedition also prote ba declared that the flood occurred many years before the hebrew tribes trod the soil of mesopotamia opo tamia tamla tunneling beneath the underpinnings of structures built by races rac Cs who dwelt in the section after the waters of the biblical hood flood had disappeared the excavators excava tors found lh the e silt left by the flood near ur of the Chal dees which must have occurred between and B D 0 according to the calculations of the archaeologists archeologists the hood flood according to doctor woolsey was a purely local phenomenon and consisted merely of the overflowing of the euphrates it was not a worldwide world wide flood as the bible relates and not all the people of 0 the earth were drowned according to the biblical account the file only family to survive e the rising in waters of the river was that of noali koah but the arche archaeologist archeologist said that there were no jews thereabouts at that time |