A few minutes later, they stood at the foot of the 4,100-year-old ziggurat, or temple tower, of Ur. They were no longer two dozen or so tired, sweaty soldiers toiling to rebuild a war-torn country.

MR. C. L. WOOLLEY'S first report on the excavations of the current season at Ur (Times, March 3), dealing mainly with a building of the little-known First Dynasty, about 3000 B.C., below the ...