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EVIDENCE OF THE FLOOD.

THE UR DISCOVERIES.

SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1929.

tho Babylonian tradition of the

The appointed time drow nigh Deluge was found in its Com-1 The Power of Darkness made a

pletest form In a lato copy of the

Reventh century B.C. The tradi-rain-flood to fall at eventide. I tion however, was very much el-watched the coming of the storm. er, and could be traced back When I saw it, terror possessed

and

mc. I went into the ship and shut approximately to 2000 B.C.,

my door...As soon as the gleam Mr. C. Leonard Woolley, who is there was no reason to виррове

not actually

of dawn shone in the sky a black older expected back shortly in London that it was from the explorations at U:, than that. The Sumerians them cloud from the foundation of which are being carried out joint-selves had an historical tradition Heaven came up..The whirlwind concerning the Kinge before and of Adad swept up to Heaven. ly by the British Museum and the after the Flood: They supposed Every gleam of light was turned University of Pennsylvania, has that ten Kings, each of whom into darkness. A whole day long made an interesting announcement, reigned" a fabulous number of (the flood descended). Swiftly it] in the Times that he believes the ex-years, ruled before the Deluge; mounded up-(the water) reached] pedition has discovered archaeo-that after the catastropha a num to the mountains. The gods were ber of dynastles in separate citles terrified at the cyclone. They logical evidence of the Flood. He continued the interrupted rule. betook themselves to flight and describes how as the excavators The Sumerians clearly supposed went up into the Heaven of Anu. went deeper In the cemetery area that the Kings before the Flood The gods crouched like a dog and at Ur, the strata showed very little were of the same race as those cowered by the wall....

When the seventh day ap- clange, the types of pottery being afterwards and as themselves,

and the "In the earliest periods found proached the cyclone uniform, and everything seeming

over my

to show that civilisation had long by excavation," said Dr. Hall, raging.flood ceased. The sen be- been consistent, not to say static. "the sites of the old cities were came quiet and went down, and occupted by people in the calceoli- the cyclone and the rainstorm 'At last, when at about the level thie stage of civiliantion. They ceased. I looked over the sea and of the outer plain, the workmen used mostly stand, but they had a calm had come,, and all mankind| came on virgin soll without ad-frome knowledge of metals. Their were turned into mud. The lond or other chief characteristle was the use of had been laid fiat, like a terraec. mixture of pottery human debris. That there might painted pottery, whereas the older I opened the air-hole and the light inhabitants used plain, unpainted fell upon my face. I bowed my- bo no mistake, they carried the buff pottery. It is roughly this self, I sat down, I cried. My

pour down pit deeper, through eight solid distinction which Mr. Woolley tears feet of clay, and then suddenly new considers to be marked by the checks. I looked over the quar came on a flat stratamirich in fint occurrence of the Deluge, for heters of the world-open sea!

found has

a painted pottery

After twelve days an island chips and cores and pottery like civilisation under a thick deposit

When the seventh that found above. On going deep-of water-borne mud; painted pot-uppeared..

free. The er the excavators found more tery before the Flood, plain pol-day lund come I brought out t

Whether dove and let her go pollery, and at the very bottom a tery after the Flood.

the division between the two doye flew away and then came burnt brick of a wholly new type, really marks the Deluge cannot back. Because she had no place showing that Ur, at that period, be proved in the absence of fuller to alight on she came back. 1 was not merely a village of mud evidence, but it is a question of brought out a swallow and let her go free. The swallow flew away huts, it a civilised town.

great interest."

and (then) came back. Because she had no place to alight on sho and let her go fret. The raven came back. I brought out a raven flew away; she saw the sinking The the ground, she croaked, she came waters. She ute, she pecked in not back.

Dow

The Three Birde, "The Sumerians," states Mr.

The Babylonian story of the Woolley, "regarded the Flood as a

the historical event, marking an epoch Deluge. Dr. Ilall stated, is almost

parallel with in their national annals, and complete though they romanced about Hebrew version, and there can be date, we have no reason to doubl little doubt that the two stories

cerare practically the same. the fact. They relate that tain of their cities survived the Babylonian tradition is that it be of Shurippak, Deluge, and though Ur is not men-An in the city

an insignificant tioned, it need not he excluded which is

a flood, mound called Tell Farah, on from the st....Only and that one of unexampled Euphrates, The last King was magnitude, could havo deposited reigning there when the guard the eight-foot bank of clay which whispered a warning to him to we have found overlying the orl save himself and put all he could xinal settlement of Ur, and we into a ship,

How close is the resemblance have found it not in one spot alone; but in three, as much as 200 yards between the Hebrew version

the Flood and the Babylonian apart."

evi-

the

of

Mr. Woolley's explanation of tradition in seen by reference to this Interesting discovery la be-the Legend "as told to Gilgamish| lieved to be the Arst claim to by Uta-Napishtim,” have found archaeological dence of the Flood as distinct] from literary evidence, of which, there has been no lack. It is cer- taln to form the subject of keen discussion, and special interest will attach. Lo Mr. Woolley's lec ture before the Society of Anti- quaries in June,

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