Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Abraham the Patriarch, was made the base for aeroplane operations of the British Air Force in the move to ward off the attack of the Wahabis on Iraq, Koweit and ...

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MR. WOOLLEY'S brief but compendious account of the excavations at Ur during the seven seasons in which he has been in charge of the joint expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the ...

IN 1919 Dr. H. R. Hall, on behalf of the British Museum, spent three months excavating at Ur. Last summer the British Museum and the University Museum of Philadelphia decided to send out a joint ...

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 ...

"Reprinted ... from the Museum journal, Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, March, 1929"--P. 437. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...

The musician touched the strings of the golden harp which was decorated with lapis lazuli shells. A dozen young ladies of the harem lay on their backs in two parallel rows; they were dressed alike, ...