ye olde annual halloween story

ye olde annual Halloween story

fiction
edward w Pritchard

repost with edits


Workers in East Liverpool, Ohio digging a new gas line 200 feet North of the Ohio river have found evidence in a tell, of a lower level ancient civilization on the site of current East Liverpool. The layering of civilizations in mounds, called tells in Arabic, is not unusual. As one civilization passes the next often build on the same site, merely raising the street level so to speak. It's a common occurrence well know to archaeologists.

What makes the East Liverpool discovery intriguing, and a little spooky to archaeologists from Ohio State University, at Columbus, Ohio is that the lower city remains are not an earlier stage of development of East Liverpool. Nor were they Native American remains. The tell is confirmed as the remains of an early civilization of Ur formerly conclusively known to be in the Middle East, existing in about 2800BC, in ancient Sumeria. How did a layer of the ancient city of Ur end up in Ohio?

Archaeologists best guess, at least according to underclassmen archeology students from Ohio State is it must have something to do with the Ohio River and civilizations developing on the land between the Rivers. [1]

More later on this as available
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author contends and hints, Ohio State Archaeology students have erred in thinking it was Ur, which is not particularly scary or news worthy