CEMETERY 6000 YEARS OLD
At Eridu, in Southern Irak, a few miles south of Ur of the Chaldees, where there have been amazing hinds in recent years, excavations have revealed some remarkable remains, including a cemetery at least 6000 years old, a temple dating from 4000 8.C., the remains of still older temples, and a great deal of pottery. A feature of the cemetery is that it is divided up into compartments of brick, each pointing in a southeast direction. Each grave when opened was found to contain implements and equipment for the life after death.
Near the cemetery the remains of no fewer than ten temples on different levels v/re found on the one site. The foundations of a Sumerian tower built of burnt brick about 2200 B.C. were discovered in the top strata, while at the lowest point there was the site of a temple of sun-dried brick, built during the fourth millennium B.C.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 7, 4 July 1949, Page 4
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156CEMETERY 6000 YEARS OLD Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 7, 4 July 1949, Page 4
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