From the December 13, 1930, issue

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SUSA, OLDEST CITY ON EARTH, TELLS ABOUT EARLY CULTURE

Ur of the Chaldees, lately hailed as the oldest city on Earth, must yield place to a city that is older still. The home town of Abraham, which stood on the Mesopotamian plain before the Flood, received its first settlers and learned its first civilization from the hill country of Elam to the east, whose chief city was Susa.