floor of the library (which was dated to about the fifteenth-twelfth centuries B.C.) was not built on virgin soil. Beneath the library floors was evidence of another level of settlement; he found objects indicating that the area had been a cemetery, dating approximately to the twenty-first—sixteenth centuries. Below the cemetery there was evidence of a still more ancient level of settlement, dating from the early or middle third millennium. After establishing the antiquity of the mound as a place