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I thought I’d send you the good news that information in the Bible is possibly being verified.
That IS good news, ISN”T it?
This tiny tablet records rations of beer, bread, garlic, oil and soap supplied to eight imperial messengers at a way station in the province of Umma in the empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur. (The month name suggests that the tablet is from ancient Umma.) These small texts recording daily outlays are known to scholars as “messenger texts.” Every month, the daily records were totalled and the records were deposited in the provincial archives. This particular text dates to the seventh day of the third month, but the exact year is not given (certainly in the latter half of the empire’s existence, i.e. ca. 2000 BC).
The Third Dynasty of Ur controlled most of present-day Iraq and parts of western Iran from about 2100-2000 BC. Ur, known from the Old Testament as “Ur of the Chaldees,” is a major archeological site in southern Iraq. The site of Umma, northeast of Ur, has been the scene of intensive looting over the last ten years.
http://www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi/iclay.html