September 25, 1928 (vol. 38, iss. 1) • Page Image 9
…-1 ucia was the successor of an earlier. city known as Opis, which Greek 1 students will recognize as lying in the route taken by Xenophon and: his ten thousand Greeks. Tel Omar, as the present site of…
… of Sumarians and Babylonians in their buildings. A most obvious proof of ancient oc- cupation were the numerous coins picked up by the Arabs here and there in the dust and debris. A majority of the…
… Waterman commanded a force of from 25 to 75 men, all native Arabs. Ordinarily, one man was employed to do the digging and two or three boys carried off the material exca- vated. Professor Waterman has thus…