OLD JERUSALEM
EXCAVATIONS SET BACK DATE,
(OKITEB PRESS ASSOCUTIO.V.—COPYRIGHT.) ' (SYDNEY SUN CABLE.) NEW YORK, 16th January. Professor Montgomery, president of the American-Oriental School of Research, has announced that Stewart Maealister, the British explorer, has discovered masonry and pottery in the walls of the Palestine^ excavations that would take the history of Jerusalem back 3000 years. 8.C., making the city 600 years • older than /previous discoveries had indicated.. ■ • The pottery is similar to that found in Egyptian excavations. Tho find is regarded as most important.
Professor Robert Stewart Macalister, D.Lrtt, LL.D., holds tho chair of Celtic Archaeology in University College, Dublin. Ho was Director of Excavations for the Palestine Exploration Fund from 1900 to 1909.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 15, 18 January 1924, Page 7
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