DIGGING UP THE PAST
EXPEDITION TO SYRIA EXCAVATIONS NEAR ANTIOCH LONDON, February 15. {■Received Feb. 10, at 8 p.m.) The expedition led by Sir Leonard Woolly, the excavator of Ur of the Chaldees, and sponsored by the British Museum, is about to start work in Northern Syria, in the neighbourhood of Antioch, with the object of obtaining information on the connections between eastern European and western Asiatic civilisations at a time about 400 years earlier than the traditional date of the Trojan war. Two sites are to be excavated, one on the sea coast at the month of the Orontes and the other in the great Amk Plain between Antioch and Aleppo.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22807, 17 February 1936, Page 10
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