Biblical Town Located.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 31 July 1914, Page 8

Biblical Town Located.

Professor Sellin, the excavator of Jericho, has achieved a new triumph by the location of the Israelitish city of Shechem, which is associated in the Bible with the names of Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph, and was the capital of King Jeroboam. Until lately the site of Shechem has been a matter of dispute. Professor Sellin located it as lying under a low hill at Balata, a short distance east of the modern town of Nablus. Just recently he had the satisfaction of proving himself, to be right. Excavations, carried on partly at the cost of the Vienna Academy of Science, revealed great parallel walls in no way inferior to the defences unearthed by Sellin at Jericho. Both walls end in towers, which are supposed to represent the city gates. Many valuable bronze and ceramic relics were found, the deposits dating from Cjanaanitish up to Greek times. The extent of the ruins proves Shechem to have been a very large city.