AFTER MANY CENTURIES
TREASURES UNEARTHED IN PALESTINE. Reuter’s Telegram. ; (Received July 28, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. Valuable results have been obtained by the Antiquities Ordnance Department in Palestine, which has had excavated the great cloisters with which King Herod I. adorned his birthplace at Ascalon. A hexagonal court, with a mosaic pavement, was uncovered at Capernaum. Steps are being taken to preserve the Crusaders’ Tower at Ramleh, near Joppa, and other monuments. So far the department has catalogued 6000 objects for the miusuem.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10965, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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