Show Layered City of the Holy HolyLand Land Shan Both not far from tram the River Jordan and tho the Sea of Galileo Gall Gall- leo lee has been giving up its it secrets to archeologists of the University museum of Philadelphia Layer after layer city upon city the archeologists have found in digging digging digging dig dig- ging backward into the years of the Arabian Byzantine Roman Jewish Greek Israelite Philistine Philistine Philis Philis- tine Egyptian and Canaanite cultures cultures cultures cul cul- cul- cul tures and at the bottom neolithic remains more than years old What they found is told in the current Scientific American by J Jotham Johnson one of those who have excavated in the field Modern man selects his city sites preferably on level ground but ut in times when city fought city and marauding gangsters attacked at night from without instead of by day from within communities tended to grow up on low flat- flat topped knolls knoBs which would be bo bemore bemore more easily defended As centuries centuries cen cen- tunes wont vent on the mud houses of which such cities were built slumped down and each owner of carting the ruined earth to a city dump leveled it off and built on top of it Thus through the ages with repetition after repetition of this process such low knolls knoUs grew into quite lofty hills hUls and there they stand many of them still unexcavated read ready for forthe forthe forthe the archeologist to dig into them well well drained clearly stratified into different cultural eras and generally protected from casual small scale marauders by their immense size In fact they are aro often so big that even the re resources resources resources re- re sources of a large museum come como far from making possible the re removal removal removal re- re moval of ot more than a vertical sample by means means of a large shaft At Shan Beth-Shan the most interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting evidences of antiquity found were those of tho the times when the heel of the Egyptian conqueror was on the CanaanIte neck We Ve find the coffins of Egyptian soldiers the tho temples built bum by the but be beneath beneath beneath be- be neath their altar steps the ring of the Egyptian king and in the sanctuary great hieroglyphic Inscriptions in inscriptions inscriptions In- In on basalt inscriptions basalt inscriptions which arc aro now in Philadelphia In Ina a land beyond th sunset about which these kings had not even dreamed |