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Dr. 100: 50: Woolley excavating at Ur of the Chaldees said that after going through strata
of pottery and rubbish the diggers came to a bed of clean clay:
"Uniform throughout, the texture of which showed that it had been laid there by water
. . . . . the clean clay continued without change until it had attained a thickness of a little
over eight feet, then as suddenly as it had begun, it stopped . . . . . the flood which
deposited it must have been of a magnitude unparalleled in local history."
Amraphel. A Fact (Gen. 14:).
Chedorlaomer, and Arioch have been proved as historic persons, and the great
Hammurabi has been proved to be the Amraphel of Gen. 14: In the British Museum
stood the famous Code of Laws written for this King, many of which can be discovered
in operation in the book of Genesis. Nearly nineteen documents of Amraphel have been
brought to light.
Abraham's City. A Fact (Gen. 11: 28).
Dr. 100: 50: Woolley has brought to light that Ur of the Chaldees was a city of great
importance, inhabited by a highly civilized population, having schools, libraries, temples
and well-built houses.
The Tower of Babel. A Fact (Gen. 11:).
Nebuchadnezzar restored the tower of Borsippa, of which he has left a record. He
says of this tower:
"As it was ages before I built anew; as it was in remote days I erected its pinnacle."
The name given to these towers is Zikkurat (Zokor--to remember as in Zechariah) so
in Gen. 11:, "To make us a name". The mound of ruins covers over 49,000sq.ft. and is
nearly 300ft. high. It is made of "brick burned throughly" united together by "slime" or
"bitumen".
Belshazzar. A Fact (Dan. 5:).
His father's prayer naming "Belshazzar, my first born son" is in the British Museum.
The Fall of Jericho. A Fact (Joshua 6:).
Professor J. Garstang's discoveries.
Moses in Egypt. A Fact (Gen. and Exod.).
The testimony of Dr. A. S. Yahuda, gives abundant proof that whoever wrote Genesis
and Exodus knew Egypt throughly and personally. Then there are the Tell-el-Amarna
tablets, mentioning cities named in Joshua and showing that the names El and Jehovah
were in use.
The Moabite Stone confirms II Kings 1:-3:
Sennacherib's Cylinder speaks of "Hezekiah" shut up "like a caged bird" in Jerusalem.
The Black Obelisk mentions "Jehu, the Son of Omri".