The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-04-30
Ruins Believed to Be $500 Years
S Old Found in Mesopotamia.
DIG UP VASES AND JEWELRY
Fragment Of Pottery Carved Appar-
emily 1000 Years Before Christ and
Relics of Observation-Disclosures Era
Among Important Things Discovered
City of Abraham Declared to Be
Yielding Secrets as Valuable as
Those Found in Tomb Of Tut.

Brick walls believed to have been
erected thirty-six centuries before the
Christian era have been discovered
among the ruins recently unearthed at
ur, the Chaldean city, according to a
Baghdad dispatch to the London
Times
The correspondent quotes c. l..
! Wooley, leader Of the archaeological ex-
| petition, as saying the ruins comprise
the Temple of the Moon God and his
consort, part Of which were brought
to light in 1918.
! The discoveries in that year. how
ever, uncovered the bachelor quarters
OF the god, while the ruins now found
are believed to have been his harem.
A fragment of stone vase has been
dug up on which is representation
of the moon and sun gods receiving the
| alteration of woshipers. The carving
Is believed to have been done 1000
years before Christ.
The excavators also discovered in the
inner room of the temple some jewelry
of the period of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, who
rebuilt the shrine in the Sixth cen
fury B. c., carefully preserving the
original plan.
Many alabaster vases and inscribed
door sockets have been found One of
the latter bears the inscription, Bur
sin" Gone of the ancient kings).
Pennsylvania "U" Interested.
The expedition, under G. L. wooley,
is being conducted Jointly by the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and the Brit |
ish museum. A report from the head |
OF the expedition was received recent |
ly by DR.. George B. Gordon, director
of the University of Pennsylvania mu-
scum. According to that report, the
Temple Of the Moon God at Or is |
yielding. secrets that will be fully as
valuable to science as the tomb of Tut
The wall of the oldest part OF the
building thus far discovered is believed
o be $500 or 1000 years old, Dr. Cor
Ion said at the Pennsylvania museum.
"Mr. Wooley's report was sent to me
" mail from Mesopotamia on Deem
er IA and / received it last week. 1t
$ long trip by mail, you see. At
he time the report was mailed to me
hey were placing about 200 men at
york on the ruins of the Temple Of
he Moon God. Mr.. Wooley said in his
eport that part Of. the building, one \
all OF which was then exposed, prob
bly,. dated hack to the third millen-
Ium B. c., and that part Of 1T might
back as far as the fifth millennium
hat would make the Temple Of the
DON God appear to be between 5,OOOj
I'd 1000 years old.
200 Worknen Excavatina.
with 200 wOrkmen excavating the
Inns, l think / should receive some
ing more definite by cable as to the
tual discoveries very soon. We knew
e temple existed There was long
addition concerning it in ancient Baby
lian writings. The Inscriptions
und at the time Mr.. Wooleys report
Is forwarded leave no doubt that it
the ancient temple of Ur devoted
the worship Of the moon. 1t was
)bably closely associated with the I
Idly of astronomy, which made its
st progress In Chaldea."
Jr is the seat of a very ancient and
-ensive culture of the Sumerians,
Q preceded the Semites in the VAL !.
of the Euphrates. In the early
lie literature it is mentioned fire.
entity as Sur of the Chaldees, the
ne of Abraham, and its civilization =
much older than that of the kings q
Egypt whose tombs are at Luxor n
rhe ancient Sumerian civilization =
) superseded by the Hemites in $500 IL
e u 4 II la 1