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 ...

Discovery of written tablets and clay jar stoppers which bear the impression of archaic seals and are the oldest written documents ever found at Ur of the Chaldees was revealed here today following ...

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THE excavations started last year on Oct. 28 abd were closed down on Feb. 19. With the exception of Father Burrows, who replaced Dr. Legrain as epigraphist, my staff was the same as in the former ...

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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 ...