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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beth-Shemesh, Dr. Elihu Grant of Haverford College has found jugs and vases which represent a bronze age culture...
...Beisan, Alan Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania found drain pipes, a grist mill, a circular silo, all indicating a busy city life 3,200 years ago. Pagan temples, tools, utensils, seals and jewelry were signs of Beisan's wealth. It was of such civilization that Jeremiah complained: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [Ashtoreth], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that...
Near present Hebron, the American School of Archaeology has found Kirjath Sepher, which the Israelites captured in the time of Joshua. Interesting are the remains of a wool-dyeing factory, a small household altar of Samuel's time...
...land of Acre," the Metropolitan Museum of Art has found better examples of 12th and 13th century A.D. war, commercial and household goods than it had been able to find in Europe, where such things have been destroyed, lost or remodeled. Palestine, in those bleak centuries, was a European province. Leading crusaders lived luxuriously and busily. When the Mohammedans finally drove them out, their goods were abandoned. Looters could not find them all. Hence the Metropolitan Museum's delvers made rich cultural finds at the isolated fortress of Montfort, old headquarters of the Hospitalers of Our Lady...
...First Crusade (1096) and later, under the Knights of St. John, was an important guard of the road to Damascus. It is the best preserved of crusader fortresses, because natives during the centuries have dumped 50,000 tons of manure into its cellars and vaults. French diggers have found the masonry in excellent and representative condition...