NEW LIGHT ON GREEK HISTORY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 28 October 1921, Page 8

NEW LIGHT ON GREEK HISTORY

REMARKABLE FIND OF SCIENTISTS.

A discovery, wh,qh, it » claimed, will form one of the fundamental sources fo«\ a history of the Roman Empire under Augustus has been.made recently by Dr. Oliveno. an Italian savant in Tyrone, the ancient Greek c6lony in Africa founded in the seventh century • A/i°rmng p po t correspondent, wriC "Hn^T ? y mI10) 8^& thafc excavations, at BoDgusi-tho ancient Berenice which stood in the mulct of the Gardens of | the Hespendos near tho mouth of the Kiver Lethe—have resulted in the unejirthin ß of a block of marble eight foot long, one face of which bears a Jiawlesß Greek inscription of over 100 lines, tho translation of a letter from Augustus on tho government and administration of justice in Cyrenaica Kivm,r a wonderful insight into the j linancial and judicial conditions of tho I country at that time. I Other interesting finds are a eanctuary dedicated to onstern divinities probably of the time of Julian the , Apostate with n remarkably well preserved black marble statue of an Effyntion goddess. An extensive Ptolemaic cemetery also has- been located. At Apolloma, a Christian basilica of the t t Cc^ tli r r.y w Veing excavated, and atMerd,, the andent^arce. some Cufic ilSd'^T 1 V 6 been. f-««»d which art tho hUtnre f+P? "nP°rta"ce when bi"*^riieJ Arßb C°nqUeßt COme3