EXPEDITION TO SYRIA
PLANS FOR EXCAVATIONS TRACING ANCIENT HISTORY (deceived February IG. 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY. Feb. 15 An expedition led by Sir Leonard Woolley, excavator of Ur of the C'haldees, and sponsored by tho British Museum authorities, is about to start work in Northern Syria in the neighbourhood of Antioch. lhe object of tho expedition is to obtain information on the connections between the Eastern European and the western Asiatic civilisations at a time about 400 years earlier than the traditional date of the Trojan War. lwo sites are to bo excavated, one on Jhe sea coast at the mouth of the Orontes and the other in the great Aiuk "lain between Antioch and Aleppo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22345, 17 February 1936, Page 9
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117EXPEDITION TO SYRIA New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22345, 17 February 1936, Page 9
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