Evidence supporting the Biblical stories of the Flood, in Genesis and in the literature of the Ancient Sumarians, has been discovered during archaeological excavations at Ur of the Chaldees, declared Professor C. Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist, upon his arrival in New York.
Professor Woolley, who for seven years has been digging up and studying evidences of the high civilization the Sumarians had developed at Ur as far back as 4,000 B. C., came last December to a stratum below the level of the Euphrates River, where all traces of life ceased. This was a layer of silty clay, eight feet thick, evidently laid down by a single flood. Beneath it were found utensils and building bricks of a different civilization.
Professor Woolley’s expedition is under direction of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum. He will return next October to continue his work.
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