ered a house that had a family chapel. There she also found plastered and decorated skulls representing ancestors whom they wanted to honour. The first piece of significant writing that Johnson discusses was found at Ugarit, in the temples of Dagon and Baal. Some inscribed tables were found in what appears to be a library of a High Priest. The writings found on these tables are in alphabetic cuneiform, which is achieved by using a triangular wedge-shaped stick to write on wet clay.
Johnson then moves into Biblical times beginning with the Old Testament. Using articles found at excavation sites; Johnson justifies that the Bible is a fairly accurate account of history. This justification eliminates the theory created by German scholars that treated the Bible as a religious myth. A form of written archeological history found, was one of many clay tablets found during excavations by Americans at Yorghan Tepe or ancient Nazu. This location stands approximately one hundred miles north of present day Kirkuk. Another justificatio
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