THE REGION OF SODOM
A iIIBLICAL STOEY CONFIRMED.
TKe lower Dead Sea region of .Palestine --has been scientifically explored for tho -first time and with great success, Melyin Grove Kyle, president of the Xenia Theological Seminary of Missouri and head of- a, research expedition, writes from, Jerusalem to the "New York Everting Pest." The expedition, which acted in co-operation with the American School- of Archaeology of. Jerusalem, reports.- the discovery of the old fortress- of Kir of Moab and location, oE the regioii- of Sodom and QomoTrah; Graves oE, a r cemetery there ■ yielded fine pottery of ;the days of Abraham.' •'' Dr. Kyle writes'that the.-mysterious rising of<'the Dead Sea can .now: be explained and. the Bibicar story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is fully confirmed;' birfc withholds details. The legend of intolerable weather in. -the Vend Sea region is not true; Dr. Kyle dsclar^s,. and predicts growth of a win-. tJgjjsi'eakh-resort .thero in the future that wflT vsurpass-in climate and scenery t-iat of Luxor? Egytv ...
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 16
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167THE REGION OF SODOM Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 16
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