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TREASURES PAVE DEATH-PIT
Archeologists at Ur of Chaldees Unearth Tomb of
Dead King's Slaughtered Retinue
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21. (&)—A mammoth death-pit in which the
bodies of forty-five victims, sacrificed in accordance with ancient Sumerian
burial rites, were found amid an amazing wealth of gold, silver
and semiprecious stones has m*+* discovered in Ur of the Chaldees, home
of Abraham, by the joint archeological expedition of the University of
Pennsylvania Museum and the British. jwri,«mtr. it — announced today.
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