City May Be Much Older
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright.) DAR-ES-SALAAM, (Tanzania). Dar-es-Salaam is believed t< be much older than the experts thought—7oo years older. Tanzania's capital is thought to be 800 years old. This is based on the discovery of pottery and beads during excavations for extensions to one of its hospitals. The city’s history had previously been traced back to the 1850 s when Sultan Majid decided to build a palace at Dar-es-Salaam (which is the Arabic for “haven of peace") where he could retire from what he described as the hurly-burly of Zanzibar. Now Tanzania’s director of antiquities, Mr Hamo Sassoon, has described twelth century pottery similar to that found at Kilwa, further down the coast, and very popular with the Crusaders. The beads found were made of glass and cornelian.
He said that the discovery was made by two Britons living in Dar-es-Salaam, Mrs Elizabeth Organ, and Mr Ray Moors, who noticed the pottery and beads in piles of earth being thrown up by workmen at the excavation site. Both are keen amateur archaelogists.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31117, 21 July 1966, Page 8
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