'QUAKE OR MIRACLE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 445, 1 February 1933, Page 7

'QUAKE OR MIRACLE

BRITISH SCIENTIST TO STUDY FALLEN WALLS OF JERICHO. British archaeologists will spend £50,000 this winter in digging up the past (says the Sunday Express). In Bible lands — Palestine, Egypt, and Mesopotamia— at least 12 major exneditions from Britain will be at work shortly. In addition there will he several smaller "digs," as well as American, German, French, and Egyption expeditions in the field. The most important "dig" is that of Sir Flinders Petrie at Gaza, in South Palestine. Sir Flinders, who is in his } 80th year, has left London on his 53rd I arehaeological expedition, and at Gaza I he will seek the 6000 years old temple of a city already old in the time of ! Abraham. | Dr. Stephen Langdon, Professor of j Assyriology in the University of Oxford, is again director of the Oxford- ' Field Museum expedition to Kish — 1 the ancient city in the middle of the deserts of Irak, believed to he the oldest in the world. The Egyptian Exploration Society will have an expedition at Tel el Amarna, in Lower Egypt' and probably two others at other sites. At Amarna Mr. J. D. S. Pendlehuiy, the Cambridge athletic "blue," is director. Mr. J. W. Crowfoot will he working on* King Ahab's palace again at Samaria. At the end of last season he found a collection of exquisite ; ivories, and he believes that he is on the track of Ahab's House_ of Ivory, which is mentioned in the Bible. Professor John Garstang has some more prohlems to solve in Jericho hefore he is sure just how the walls fell flat. He is certain they did, and what he wants to know is why — earthquake or mivacle.