THE CEDAR OF SOLOMON
The cedar wood so frequently mentioned in the Bible, and so freely used by Somolon for his Temple, is now known to have been one of the materials used in the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt. The investigators of tho Imperial Institute at Oxford have established this fact, and have told in their annual report how they made their tests. It is amazing that wood should exist for thirty centuries without dissolving into dust, but the explanation is that all the time it has remained absolutely dry. Another of the woods used for the shrines proved to bo of the zizyphus tree, which does not grow in Egypt, but in the regions of the Upper' Nile, and so it is evident that the. Egyptians traded in that direction as well as across Suez into Palestine.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 5
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139THE CEDAR OF SOLOMON Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 5
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