FINDINGS AT UR.
RESULT OK EXCAVATIONS. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON, January 21. British Museum excavators at Ur, clearing Liu* int’ercliainber oif the royalty tomb where a pit twenty-five 'feet square was covered with bodies ol human victims, mostly women, adorned with headdresses of gold, silver and lapislazuli. far richer than nine court ladies found in the king’s tomb in 1928. Other discoveries are three gold and silver harps, magnificently decorated, two statues of rams caught in thickets, whereof Hie head and legs are gold, and fleece of white shell and lapislazuli. The latter two are the most remarkable objects of Sumerian art yet produced.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1929, Page 5
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113FINDINGS AT UR. Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1929, Page 5
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