BIBLE CITY FOUND.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15128, 20 February 1922, Page 5

BIBLE CITY FOUND.

What-is regarded, by many scholars as the mos vadluable discovery .which has, yet been made by the archaeoloist in Palestine is the loction of the site of the cit yof Capernaum. Among its ruins have been found the remains of a synagogue believed to be the very one wherein our Saviour preached. - For over nineteen hundred years the very site of such an important Bible qity as Capernaum has been in dispute. It was thought that it stood at the northern end of .he Sea of Galilee at a place called Tell Hum, where there are extensive ruins. A systematic examination of t?jese, and the discovery of ancient documents, now make it clear that this, indeed, was ancient Capernaum. -The ruins' of a Jewish synagogue have been brought to light. Explorers say this temple stood there in the days of Christ, and is the very building referred to in the .Gospels. The position of the stones would indicate that it was destroyed by an earthquake. It is the belief of the excavators tha the whole edifice can be reconstructed. -