NEW JERICHO FINDS
- INDICATIONS OF GREAT RAMPART LONDON, Tuesday. The Jerusalem correspondent of the ‘•Daily Mall” says the Marstcn expedition has now probed to the lowest interior of the great mound at Jericho, and has located neolithic floors and Xiearths 16ft. beneath the surface. There are indications of a great stone rampart which, including a citadel, covered 10 acres. The site was levelled after its destruction in the year 1600 B.C. Fresh walls were built enclosing a smaller area. Dr. Garstang is now tracing these lines of defence. The excavation is expected, to prove of great Biblical interest.
While excavating the walls of Jericho on February 10, the members of the Sir Charles Marston expedition party cleared a citadel tower, which was built with walls of brick 12ft thick and 27ft high. The leader. Dr. John Garstang. professor of archaeology at Liverpool University, believes that the tower was built in the year 2000 8.C., and destroyed in 1600 B.C. He hopes to disentangle the whole history of the
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 11
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