ANCIENT JERUSALEM
4 HISTORY TRACED BACK TO 3000 B.C. (Rec. January 17, 8.5 p.m.) Nevi York, January 16. Professor Montgomery, .president of the American Oriental School of Research, has announced that Mr. Stuart McAlister, a British, explorer, has discovered masonry and pottery j ll walls during excavations in Palestine that would take the history of Jerusalem back three thousand years before Christ, making the city six hundred years older than previous discoveries indicated. The pottery was similar to that found in Egyptian excavations. The find is regarded as most im-portant.--Sydney “Sun” Cables.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 96, 18 January 1924, Page 7
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