Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-14
40 DIG IN BABYLON.
Tn" importance ot the Work sough, to Hc
Accomplishments Field OF Proposed
EXnInrntIan

Tn" importance ot the WORK SOugh, to Ro
Accomplishments Field OF Proposed
Exploration.
Tho Balylonian expedition, to be undor.
taken under tho auspices OF tho University
OF Pennsylvania, will develop, 1t Is conf
IDENTIFY expected by it's projectors, many
alci ~ illogical treasures. The staff OF ex plor.
ers Will consist OF Rev. John =. Peters. Ph.
ID. professor Of the Old Testament Litera.
ture and languages In the department OF
Biblical learning, In tho Divinity school
OF tho Protestant Episcopal church In
Philadelphia, az directors DR.. r..
i. Msrper, OF Yale college, and Pro.
fessor H. V. Hilprecht, OF the University of
Pennsylvania, as psychologists Professor
John Henry Haynes, who accompanied tho
Wolfe expedition In 1855, OF which Dr.
Ward WAS head, Rs photographer; MIR. J.
ID. Prince, representing Columbia college,
N. Y, who goes "a assistant to the director
deyotiDg himself especially to the study OF
dialects; al architect not yet named, and
physician, who Is TO DO taken up Mt
BeyfonL
Dr.. Peters expects to leave PHILADELPHIA
ON tho % instant, but the expedition will
not begin work on the field until tho
antumr. The climate Ia such that no
digging can bo undertaken before the
middle of November. In speak ing OF the
contemplated trip, and particularly in
reply TO question az to "wha,
was hoptd TO be accomplished" Or
Peters said The field is full of ruins Of
the most ancient cities OF the world, with
the possible exception OF the Egyptian.
only one or two OF whi,h have ever been
explored, and those only in the yery leas
degree. We know the names of ffty or
sixty cities which existed there-citiss of
importance-and the sites OF not one dozen
nj hAn NAta
give some idea OF how little work has been
done when these cities have been left un.
determined. large part of the country il
unsurveyed, so that IL IL rather difficult to
say that where we are to dig Is such and
such spot, because people on the ground
get new information, which oftentimes In.
duces them to change the best devised
plans they may have made. 1t is an actual
TACT OF experience that the unknown
mounds in that country have hitherto
yielded the best results. The great RUNS
oi Babylon havo not been prolific OF re.
suits In comparison with some mounds re-
knowledge. '
"The actual site OF digging cannot be def.
hitely stated before departure. 1t depends
primarily upon the permission granted by
the Turkish authorities, and sscondsrily
upon information to be obtained ON the
spo', considefaiions Of transportation, eli
-NS 49, tho oil obtaining
labor. The region in which these anciep,
cities lie Is comprised between the rivers
Ilgrls and Fuphrstes, from ahaut thar
point OF Junction TO some ioriy miles north
or Bagdad. The work done Will bs some
where within those lin It's"
Referring 10 previous efforts In the g. ma
direction aud the origin OF the presvnt
movement, DIR. Peters said "An expedi.
ZION went out under the auspices of the
"A american Archaeological institute In lsS5-
headed hy DIR. William Hayes Ward, sdi,
tor OF The independent, OF New York.
Tho money for IN q, 5000, was given bv
expedition was known as the Wolfe exneN
iition. The object WINS merely 10 look over
The ground and prepare the way for the
work. The present expedition is the out.
,ome of that
The movement began with Mr.. T.. w,
Clark, the banker, and MIR. q. ii, CLARK. IL
ook shape In q meeting held ut the resi-
ience OF the provost OF the University, DR..