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Servants entombed with royal dead in ancient Kish find
Archaeology reports from fieldwork in Mesopotamia reveal royal tombs at Kish with four skeletons beneath a chariot and wives and attendants buried to accompany a king in the afterlife. Langdon and Woolley describe ritual murder of servants and attendants, while excavations at Ur and Kish uncover rich Babylonian and Sumerian artifacts and a developing picture of early civilization.
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Dexter Haynes
New York
5. H. Langdon
Oxford
Field “Museum
Stamees Wines
Rod Score
Langdon
Isis
Kish
C. Leonard Woolley
British Museum
Theniversity of Pennsylvania
Mr. Woolley
Iraq
Yucatan
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Cutenkhamen
Kush
Eastern
L. C. Wastelin
Hursazkalamma
Harsagkalamma
Nebuchadnezzar
Nabomidus
Belshazzar
Professor Langdon
Field Museum
Jemdel-Nasr