ANCIENT EGYPT.
A ROYAL PALACE. LOCATED AT JERICHO. (Received Thursday, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, Wednesday. The Garsting-Warston Palestine expedition has located the royal palace at Jericho which was razed when Joshua burned the city 5400 years ago. Sir Charles Warston states that the excavation of the palace is being delayed until 1932 owing to the heat in the Jordan valley. The discovery follows the recent location of Jericho and Necropolis in which Garstang estimates that there are two thousand unopened tombs. An exhibition of the finds will probably be held in London. Garstang is publishing a boon dealing with the researches which Sir C. Warston believes will revolutionise many ideas regarding Bible history up to the events recorded in the Book of Judges,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 9 April 1931, Page 5
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