SOLOMON’S SEAPORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1938, Page 7

SOLOMON’S SEAPORT

DISCOVERY IN THE RED SEA. BIBLE PROVIDES KEY. The curtain appears to have been lifted on the location of King Solomon’s seaport bn the short of the Red Sea in the tenth to eighth centuries 8.C., through excavations directed by Nelson Glueck, director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem (says the “Christian Science Monitor”). The discovery of the port from which the King’s trade ships sailed in the days of the Queen of Sheba is announced by Professor Millar Burrows, of Yale, president of the American Schools of Oriental Research, supported co-operatively by several learned societies and 50 American universities, colleges, and thealogical seminaries. The Bible was the key to the discovery. The exact location of the seaport has long been undiscovered, but explorations and excavations confirm that it was at the spot known as Eziongeber in Biblical times, and now called Tell el-Kheleifeh by the Arabs. Exploration begun near Akabah, on the eastern arm of the Red Sea, laid bare the site. Evidence is unearthed that the seaport was occupied with the smelting of copper and manufacture of copper implements as well as shipbuilding. Like a breath from antiquity is the fact that by placing a hand over the flue holes in the ancient walls over the flue holes in the ancient walls now uncovered, one can feel the strong draught that still courses through them as in the smelting operations centuries ago.