Photograph from Prof. Albert T. Clay 

 EXCAVATIONS IN THE TEMPLE AREA AT NIPPUR 



The explorer of the future will be a digger rather than a hiker. The discoveries ob- 

 tained by the pick and shovel are affording constant proof that the truth of history surpasses 

 the fancy of romance, even though that romance may spring from the fertile imaginations 

 of the people of the land of Harun-al-Rashid. 



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