Word: megiddo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perennial battleground of the ancient world was Armageddon, which lies about ten miles south of Nazareth, 15 miles from the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. The Hebrew word is har magiddo, which may originally have meant "fruitful mountain" or "desirable city." Megiddo, the name by which the site is known to modern archeologists, guards the pass from Egypt through the Carmel ridge to the once-rich valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris. There, according to the Old Testament, "Pharoaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria" and Josiah, in disguise, battled against him. * There Thutmose III of Egypt...
Last week Archeologist Gordon Loud, a veteran digger of 37 who now commands the Oriental Institute's Megiddo Expedition, was back in Chicago with news that he had penetrated the site down to bedrock, through 20 culture levels dating back to 3,500 B. C. Beneath the oldest level was a stone age cave containing flint instruments and bones. At the 19th level the excavators found a flagged paving in which drawings of horned animals and men had been cut. At the 18th level was a stone fortification wall 15 feet high and 24 feet wide, which indicated that...
...world's greatest living cavalryman sat reading in his high-ceilinged London study one noon last week. Suddenly the book slid from his hands, his chin sagged to his chest and Field Marshal Sir Edmund Hynman Allenby, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo* and of Felixstowe, was dead...
Died. Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 75, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe; of a heart attack; in London...
...will offer for sale a set of 20 one-reel sound pictures produced in the Physical Sciences Department at Chicago. The pictures will show detailed scientific experiments, synchronized with lectures by Chicago professors. Subjects include: the flow of protoplasm in plant & animal life, the excavations of Nineveh and Megiddo, the heartbeat of a dog. Price for the set will be $1,400 including projector. The university will receive no profit beyond publicity. Not intended to take the place of professors or to reduce teaching time, the films are planned as addenda to regular instruction in institutions of limited facilities. Production...