Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1931, Page 34

C—6 SUNDAY WP OF ANCENT JEWSISUNEDVERED City That Flourished in Era of Exile Yields Traces of Prehistoric Man. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Bpades of archeologists rapidly sre uncovering the ancient Hebrew City of Mispah, 7 miles north of Jerusalem. which is mentioned frequently in the a popu- period be- excavators e " uncc which checks the bibli They have found t and place of sacr covered fort C., when, accordin count, the city was refortified. Structures | e been uncovered which, dated by s, turn out to have been b days of Judas Maccabeaus city as a strongt have gathered artifacts cupancy of the city d bronze ege Prehistoric Cave Found The excavation of on hillside, Bade s epitome of t site from about 7 The earliest inhabitants of the presumably u dead, but within the inclos was found a kiln filled with pottery that | never had been fired. Presumably it | was intended for burial purpose: some evil fate overtook both the livi and the dead before the job could be | completed The last discovery of the present year was of a vaulted passage and & long! flight of steps leading below the city wall to a rock-hewn cistern, the con- tents of which dates from the the excavators next year Nobody knows the final fat pah, but one of the latest d this year was of a {rom the days of King He! governor who ruled Jeru the boyhood of Jesus. The New Testa- | ment doesn't say what happened to! Herod, but, Mr. Bade explains, other | historical records show that his cruel- | ties to the Jews when reported in Rome | caused such an outburst of hum tarian sentiment that he was recalled, tried and banished to Gaul, where he | disappears from history. The finding of | the tomb dating from his reign may throw new light on the condition of the | country during the boyhood of the Messiah Lost History Rebuilt. Recent discoveries through Europz and Asia Minor are yielding much ma- | terial for reconstructing the lost history of the human race before the dawn of history, according to an article in the report by George Grant MacC 1 Yale University. This is seen ally in reports from Egypt, believed by | many to be the cradle of civilization. It has been possible to extend Egyptian chronology back into the old stone a where crude implements have been w covered similar to those found in E: rope when that country was inhabited by the Neanderthalers In Prance, Dr. MacCurdy reports. further digging in the site of Les Eyzies, Dordogne, whose upper levels have been explored for years in search of ancient implements, has brought to light a rich deposit of eoliths—crudely fashioned stones presumably from the hands of men who occupied the country before any of those whose skeletal remains | have been found Complete Sequence Found. Excavations in the cave ¢f Mugharet | ¢l Wade, in Palestine, have brought to | light a complete sequence of cultural material from that of the Romans,| Greeks and Arabs down to that of | men who lived during the Mousterian ! period, at least 50,000 years ago. One| of the most notable recent findw, Dr MacCurdy reports, is that of another Neanderthal skull in a gravel pit near Rome, where also were found foss of elephants. rhinoceri and oth ancient ank Mcre ancient humnn‘ skeletons have been recovered from excavations in Czechoslovakia, ciated with the bones ¢f the ma moth. The latest of these shows s that the bones were scraped w inst that of cannibals From w Polish phalt deposit eome a ccmplete skeleton of a w rhinoceros, Which was one of the co temporaries of ea man. Fron deposit near Irkutz beria, associ with bones of & mammoth and woolly rhinoceros, came a curious carved human figure, similar to several in Prance sear the Bay of Bisc distance is 7,000 miles. Ancient must have been more of a wa is credited wi being. This same curlous figure, Dr. | MacCurdy reports, now is beginning to Ge Its " for man Algerlan Coast covered today near Indications were that the two mem- bers of the plane’s crew had taken to the boat and had been washed out by s storm, but search for the missing men continued | The French warship Lorraine and a hydroairplane have been searching the | Mediterranean between the Balearic Islands and the coast of Af Wednesday Shampoo Ifou rself with Cuticara Soap Axomnt the scalp with Catieura Ointment. Then shampoo with a suds of Cutieura Soap and quite warm water. Rinse thoroughly Sogp 25c._Ointment 25c gnd S0c. rietors: Potter Drug & Chemlcal Corp., Maiden, Mass. STAR, ASHINGTON, B0 1931—PART ONE. Tomorrow! A Sale o 8x10'; ft. Seamless Axminster rugs 9.25 These rugs are perfect! will find a 27x54-in. Scatter size Rug ... ...$1.95 And a fine quality, too, which you pealing at such a price! 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