The news that Professor Garstang, of Liverpool University, the director of tho British School of Arclmoology in Jerusalem, is about to excavate the Crusader city of Ascalon, will set historians agog for d'etails, says English paper. Ono of the five chief cities of the Philistines, Ascalon was tho birthplace of_llerod the firoht, and the scene of many conflicts in tii« Crusades. Saladin and Richard 1 captured it in turn, and the. Sultan Bibars rnzod its fortifications in 1270. Familiar enough to Old Testament readers. the city's name also survives in current speech through its derivative "filial' lot,"'a vegetable that originated outside tho walls of Ascalon.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 48, 20 November 1920, Page 14
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