NECROPOLIS OF JERICHO
ANCIENT PLACE OF BURIAL
DISCOVERY BY EXPEDITION
GREAT HISTORICAL VALUE
LIGHT ON CITIES OF PLAIN
By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. London, March 14.
Professor Garstarig discovered a necropolis at Jericho, the ancient burying place of the people destroyed by Joshua more than 3000 years ago. Sir Charles Marston, who financed the expedition, declared that the discovery was likely to be of the greatest historical importance as it would probably reveal the habitk and customs of the mysterious race inhabiting the “Cities of the Plain” for several centuries.
It is suggested that they were degenerate descendants of the so-called Hyksos, or Shepherd Kings, and ruled Egypt for many centuries. One of them was Pharoah when Joseph was Minister at the Egyptian Court. Professor Flinders Petrie, who discovered traces of the people of the plain in south Palestine, said that it will be interesting to see how Professor Garstang’s finds ■ will support his reconstruction of the lives of these strange people.
The necropolis has been undisturbed since the interments 3400 years ago.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1931, Page 7
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