Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1928, Page 33

“HIDDEN CITY HELD | " REAL MOUNT SINAT Petra, Near Dead Sea, Has| “Buildings™ Carved From | Sandstone Cliffs. | Discoveries which have led some | archeologists to accept the view that the hidden city of Petra, near the Dead Sca, is the real “Mount Sinai” from which Moses obtained his law gives that mysterious and unique city a new interesi. A bulletin from the National Georgraphic Society tells of P and its unusual site. “Petra is like a fairy city hidden in a mountain,” says the bulletin. “It is as though a huge peak had been disem- boweled and the ancient city set down in the chasm. | “The old entrance to the city, which | was an fmportant factor in its strength, | can be used today. From a semi-desert | in one enters a narrow canven which | + 15 a mere cleft in towe,.ng walls of red | sandstone. Along the Mottom of this canyon a little stream flows. The high, 3 walls many places overhang- ing, give the hassage a gloom even at midday. At one point the floor of the canyon narrows to 12 fect, and at no place it 1s wider than 40. | “After one has followed this tortuous chasm for two miles he comes out ur expectedly into an open plain, appro imately a mile across, entirely rounded by sheer cliffs and precipit sloj ‘Through the center winds the little stream. a municipal water supply | ages ago. On the level ground on each | side of the stream rose the ancient city. | “Buildings” Carved from Cliffs. - *Nearly all traces of the anclent struc- | tures that rose on the plain have dis- | appeared. But against the cliff V\sllsl Temains a unique and almost imperish- | able Pera. One-piece ‘buildings’ have | been carved out of the solid sandstone | and are almost as well preserved today as when the chisels of their creators were laid down. | “One of the most striking of these | * creations is the so-called ‘Treasury of | riod several centuries before Christ. The | front of the edifice stands in deep reitef, | its pillars, capitals, pediment and super- structure intact. A doorway leads into the cliff from which rooms were hol- Jowed. “Another carved masterpiece is the Tock-hewn Greek theater that seated | 5,000 spectators. Temples also are carved in the cliffs; but the most nu- | merous of the monuments are tombs. Thousands of them look down on the | plain, many showing the most - elaborate and exquisite carving. | Ancient Distributing Center. | “Petra has been called by poets the | ‘rose-red city half as old es time.’ deeply colored walls—rose, purple, yel- | Jow, crimson—are indeed beautiful, and | « the skillful use of the colored strata in | the carvings shows that the Peira ar- | the most of the esthetic | bilities. But Petra did not exist for | uty alone. If it had posscssed a | i that its weekly ‘bank clearings’ ran | hundreds of talents. H ty was the Suez and Psnamn( a Incense, spices and other of the East came from India, | and farther Arabia to this ‘safety | of the desert. From there | were distributed to Egypt. Poles- | tine and Syria, and through Tyre and | o the mut. An important special traffic of the city was the furnishing of Dead | bitumen embalmers of | %mmmmmmm & LIBERTY Yess than 19 hou extra farc - - Arrives Chicago Additional tr; at7:55A. M., 2 To Detroit only 17 hon 0:45, feaves Pharaoh,’ a product of the Greek pe- |er! dental - | at least sketchily from about 600 B.C. s |~ Mediterranean countries to | @O A leader of the ~ largest fleet of trains in America Leaves Washington , ns leave Washington for Chicago astest tr arrives Detroit 5:15 AM reservations telephone Main 9140, and holidays telephone Main 7480, C. ¥. McCullough, General Passenger Agent, 613.-14th Street, N. 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The | British army was s fond of the Ger- man dogs es the Amcrican scldiers were, and brought thousands of them back from the Rhinelan land and gained wide pop- the breeders find trievers which somewhat ressmbled the modern Lab- radors, but some experts declare the | Labrador is a product of the European | continent, regardicss of als neme. | PREVENTION OF TOOTH DECAY IS BEING SOUGHT Correspondence of the Associated Press. NEW YORK.—Tooth decay has be- come such a scourge that dentisty should turn its attention to means of preventing this “most prevalent of all human discases,” says Dr. Alfred Wal- ker, clinical professor of pulp canal therapy in the New York University College of Dentistry. “While great strides have been made in restorative dentistry, little has been discovered in the way of preventive measures,” Dr. Walker assarts. “It is well established that unhealthy condi- | i in the mouth may and do induce bodily diseases. serious problem confronts the ! profession. The race is so af- flicted with this scourge of tooth decay that if dentists ware to devote all of their time to filling cavitles in teeth they could not begin to cope with the situation. The only h is in finding a means of prevention. had'’ had tiquity is not known, but its history is It is now suggested that the more an- cient town may have served as a dis- tributing center for the religious ideas of the East as its successor served in forwarding Eastern goods.” DontCoddle PILES Why permit piles to interfers with your work and play? Don’t be & slave to them. Let PYRAMID ease and comfort. PYRAMID FOR PILES are small, medicated supposi- , almost magic in their soothing, healing _ action. FREE Pn'o °l: e T e . ar MAIL For fres trial box in ‘wrapper, write PYRAMID DRUG COMPANY Pyramid .+ Marshall, LIMITED rs to Chicago, no 3:10 P.M. 9:00 A.M. , 10:0 1. 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