...Pennsylvania Expedition explored. I have called this temple " the oldest temple in the world." We found that Nippur was a great and flourishing city, and...less than 6000 years old, and proved that writing and civilization were then by no means in their infancy. Further than that, our explorations have shown...

...Peters, in reporting on the epigraphic material secured by Mr. Haynes, writes as follows : — " We found that Nippur was a great and flourishing city, and...of Abraham as the time of Abraham is prior to our own day. We discovered written records no less than six thousand years old, and proved that writing...

...writes as follows: — "We found that Nippur wa^ a great and flourishing city, and its temple, tin temple of Bel, the religious centre of the dominant...of Abraham as the time of Abraham is prior to our own day. We discovered written records no less than six thousand years old, and proved that writing...

...Expedition explored. I have called this temple ' the oldest temple in the world ' ; we found that Nipur was a great and flourishing city and its temple, the...of Abraham AS the time of Abraham is prior to our own day. We discovered written records no less than 6000 years old, and proved that writing and civilisation...

...Expedition explored. I have called this temple ' the oldest temple in the world ' ; we found that Nipur was a great and flourishing city and its temple, the...period as much prior to the time of Abraham AS the lime of Abraham is prior to our own day. We discovered written records no less than 6000 years old,...

...potent as that of Jerusalem over our own." Those who worshiped at Nippur in those far-away ages were the " dominant people of the world at a period as...Abraham as the time of Abraham is prior to our day." These modern revelations of the distant ages of the past prove conclusively that the world is not as...