HISTORIC PALESTINE
VALUABLE RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS.
(Rec. July 28, 7.50 p.m. London, July 27.
The valuable results obtained by the Antiquities Ordinance Department in Palestine, which had excavated the great cloisters with which Herod adorned his birthplace, Ascalon, and the ’ hexagonal court with mosaic pavement was uncovered at Caperaum. Steps are being taken to preserve the Crusaders’ Tower at Ramleh, near Joppa, and other monuments So far tho Department has catalogued six thousand objects for museum. —Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 261, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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