(Jewish Dally Bulletin)
New evidence placing I an extraordinary antiquity on the civilization of Ur of the Chaldees on the Euphrates in lower Mesopotamia has been found by excavators of the Pennsylvania.
Museum and of the British Museum, according to an announcement Sunday by Director G. B. Gordon of (he Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Starting at an archaeological level definitely, dated it 3300 B. C by a variety of objects belonging to k period of the first dynasty of Ur the excavators kg down twenty feet, encountering’ earlier and earlier objects all the way, until they got to a pre-brick period. After getting below the level of the crudest and earliest bricks they found remains of buildings which had been constructed of clay in shapeless masses.
Having cleared the remains of the great stage tower of Ur and settled the architectural plan of that and towers similar to Babel, the excavators started several weeks ago to dig a great mound which was believed to represent the ruins of the palace of the famous Dungi, a king who ascended the throne of Ur in 2456 B. C. and ruled there for fifty-eight years. The excavation that was carried out grazed one side of the palace of Dungi and gave the archaeologists their bearings for future digging, but did not result in unearthing the palace of the monarch who ruled over Ur 300 years before the time of Abrahum’s sojourn there, as told in Genesis.
DR. SAMUEL SCHULMAN SAILS TODAY FOR PALESTINE
Dr. Samuel Schulman, rabbi of Temple Beth-El, Fifth Avenue and Seventy-sixth Street, New York, and his wife are sailing today on the Mauretania for a six months’ trip abroad.
They will take a Mediterranean trip and then they will spend four or five weeks in Palestine where Dr. Schulman will study the conditions there.
While Dr. Schulman is abroad the acting rabbi will be the Rev. Simon Cohen, who is the assistant at Beth-El.
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