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...confrontation with the Philistines. Yet archaeological findings have long indicated that at the time of the Exodus-about the 13th century B.C.-the Philistines had not yet established themselves in the coastal region around Gaza. Now after nearly ten years' digging in the Gaza Strip, Archaeologist Trude Dothan, 57, of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, has found indications that the Israelites went into the desert to elude not the Philistines but the very people from whom they were escaping-Egyptians. The evidence: the remains of a large Egyptian community just south of Gaza that flourished during the reign...
After the Six-Day War in June 1967, Dothan noticed that Arab antiquity shops in the Old City of Jerusalem-just conquered by Israeli troops-were stocked with ancient Egyptian artifacts. When Dothan asked where they came from, the dealers specified Hebron, in the mountains south of Jerusalem. That was clearly a tall tale; some of the artifacts-jewelry, clay masks, even coffins-still bore grains of yellow Mediterranean sand...
...Dothan suspected that the antiquities came from the Gaza Strip, which Israel had also occupied during the war. She took her hunch to then Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, an avid amateur archaeologist and collector. Three months later he not only told her where the Egyptian materials came from-how he found out he never revealed-but also provided a military escort to the site near the Arab town of Deir el Balah, about 18 miles southwest of Gaza...
William N. Confer Dothan...
...Match. He said he hoped they wouldn't credit him. The A.P. photographer was snapping away, grumbling. "I'd rather be out coverin' civil rights marches, shit. Or a convention--them Kennedy people taught me how to buy a convention. Nineteen-sixty, there I was, lil' country boy from Dothan, Alabama, coverin' Johnson, shit, they'd paid off everybody. Paid off the goddam elevator boys. If you was with Johnson, you couldn't get an elevator for 25 minutes." Click click click. "Shit, this is weird, ain't it boy?" Indeedy sir, it's right weird...