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...pick-and-shovel brigades have invaded Gibeon, where once the sun stood still for Joshua; painstakingly they have probed for the ruins of Gordion, capital of Phrygia, where poor King Midas saw his concubines turn to gold at his touch. The city of Ephesus, sacred to the goddess Artemis, and Aphrodisias, sacred to Aphrodite, are yielding their age-old secrets. The remnants of Hatra, destroyed long ago by the Persians, have been recovered from the debris of centuries. Samarra is being excavated-that lovely capital of Abbasside caliphs, who ruled over the Near East during Europe's dark ages...
Bibleland archaeologists have long suspected that the tiny Arab village of el-Jib eight miles northwest of Jerusalem hides fascinating secrets. The village stands on an oval man-made mound, and the experts think that it may cover Gibeon, an ancient city whose inhabitants, according to the Book of Joshua, made a deal with the invading Israelites and so were not slaughtered, only enslaved. For four years, Professor James B. Pritchard of Church Divinity School of the Pacific, whose passion is checking the historical accuracy of the Old Testament, dug at el-Jib. He found many interesting things, including...
Last week Dr. Pritchard told how he found positive proof of Gibeon's great age. After the University of Pennsylvania expedition that he headed had a spell of unfruitful digging, an Arab woman named Umm Azzat offered to sell him two old pots. One look told Dr. Pritchard that the pots belonged to the middle Bronze Age well before Joshua and the Israelites invaded the Holy Land about 1200 B.C. Dr. Pritchard not only bought the pots but hired the woman as his "consultant." After a little coaxing she took him to her tomato patch...
...told, twelve tombs were excavated, and from them came more than 400 earthenware objects. All were older than Joshua's late Bronze Age, and they proved beyond doubt the statement in the Book of Joshua 10:2 that "Gibeon was a great city" when the Israelites came raging out of the wilderness...
...Among other events at Gibeon mentioned in the Bible: the siege by Amorite kings which was lifted by Joshua as the sun stood still and stones rained down on the fleeing besiegers (Joshua 10); the slaughter of Amasa by Joab (II Samuel 20); Solomon's dream of wisdom (I Kings...