The Mahnomen Pioneer

New Proof of Biblical Flood Found in Kish

London, England.—Prof. S. H. Langdon, the Oxford archeologist, has returned from a seven years' investigation in Mesopotamia to announce discovery of absolute evidence of the biblical flood in the Kish region.

He also announced that his expedition had unearthed at Kish, a Sumerian capital which, in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, was five miles long and eight miles wide, and existed for 4,000 years.

The expedition found many long-headed types of skulls among the early Sumarians which Professor Langdon said "Indicate the Semites arrived among the Sumerians of Mesopotamia so early they were almost on a level with the Sumerians."

"Therefore, the Semites easily are the oldest race in the world today because the Sumerians vanished utterly at the end of the third millennium," he said.

"There can be no doubt of evidence of the great flood," he continued. "This stratum which can be seen quite clearly at Kish is sediment precipitated in still water and is one and one-half feet thick. The story of the escape from the ark comes from this part of the country (Kish) as well as from other regions. There is evidence of inundation as stretches about 100 miles apart along the Euphrates river and more than ten miles inland on either bank. However, there is no evidence the country further removed from the river was flooded."