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...weeks ago, a travel agent found an extra bonus in the plan. A customer wanted to fly 140 miles from Valdosta, Ga., to Dothan, Ala. However, the $54 flight includes a stop more than 200 miles from either town, in Atlanta. Bingo! That meant a free pass to California. Word spread fast. The resulting stampede to Dothan included one high school senior who booked ten seats for himself and nine classmates so that they could take a trip after graduation...
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LECTURE: "New Discoveries in Egyptian and Philistine Cultures: The Period of the Exodus and the Israelite Settlement"; Trude Dothan; Lown Auditorium; Wednesday...
...Dothan quickly spotted numerous fragments of old pottery, including bits similar to the Egyptian-style artifacts in Jerusalem. Since there were signs that grave robbers had been at work, Dothan wanted to start excavating immediately. But terrorism was still rampant in the Gaza Strip; it was three years before the army let her team begin. Even then, a squad of soldiers always stood guard and allowed no digging after 4 p.m. Dothan was not deterred. To help locate promising sites, she hired as her foreman a Bedouin named Hamad who had been doing some freelance digging...
During last season's digging, Dothan made her most impressive find to date: 300 yds. south of the burial ground, her bulldozers uncovered foundations of what appears to be a large official residence, containing some 15 rooms, dating back to the 14th century B.C. Mud-brick walls of a second residence, atop the first, traced directly to the era of Ramses...