ANCIENT JERICHO
AREA ONLY SIX ACRES
LONDON. July 11. The ancient world was curiously small according to Professor Garstang, of Liverpool University, who is exhibiting at Liverpool objects from the archaeological excavations at Jericho. Jericho at the time of the sacking occupied anly six acres, and held probably 1509 souls, of whom only 300 were fighters.
The city, had-grown poorer owing to rapacity and the financial embarrassment of the Pharaohs until the Israelites, numbering about 1000 fighters, were able to overwhelm it. It was later recorded that the Pharaohs sent 25 men to, restore the Empire. Even nowadays the scale of operations is not much larger, for Professor Garstang mentions that when help was sought from Egypt during the recent riots, 1.5 men in aeroplanes sufficed to overcome the resistance.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1932, Page 6
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130ANCIENT JERICHO Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1932, Page 6
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