Show K ti tit tia tiu t OF OF THE w a BIBLE u h I J AT R lIU THE ROMANCE OF SITU SCIENTIFIC IC 6 x m J f R ha l De D f f i r EXPLORATION AND ND EXCAVATION S y New t t Or Y YIM t tIN IN IM THE HOLY LAND A AND EGYPT jL ZAW t BY WHICH SCRIPTURAL MARRA A h JIVE IS VERIFIED AND EXPLAINED ha Hii rn l vy m a r rr 7 t 0 Ll r rr niR C r r a tria l sr i r C V w p 1 s r 1 1 J 1 4 Y t w F a f 1 y t 4 s l J t r T I IX I X s dit ks rc t Ili c a t x 1 it i C y t ft a n j v aV 5 L y x r rY Y ht lr i v t N rl l i M n Fr r Z rr i SUNry I Ith 1 el f f f f t R i th ti fu 11 y l t lea P yi u y J a Y t Y J l S a dib tYr ru h ri k ra y Y hw wr r e iLaY ft j l l 1 i THE 1 H f 11 r Jl a i t 4 y t f i J t y v t t OF or THE T S D p r 1 t v fr t t tl k kl p i J If ire i l r T fr By Laura Farlow of oC tha the Egyptian and Palestine Exploration Iun Funds JI I Photographs by the author 1113 mediaeval chivalry of oC th the theW world W or kings and with de Ilo devout vout and devoted hosts host poured T THE out blood bloo l and treasure to o wrest the thc holy hol platys from Cram the th Moslem Modern yet today wo 0 find Turkish troops keeping order ardor on Easter morn In tin Ibi Holy 1101 Sepulchre Av All to excavation escalation or not lIot a n spade sPada cut can be put in inc InI site without mystic c I wad ma or s a from tho Sublime Porte und and and 1 strains from the ito whole hierarchy of bf o Turkish officialdom la In a I know no more curious tact In all 1111 his history tOT tory lor it Ills la a 11 Pity the Bible on face has been done dono In to 11 the th teem of opposition For fifty lit years Islam tae HUB the tha work orl with suspicion over sInO archaeology bec m a n science and forgot forgotten t ten o peoples lived for fob u us again In temples and ind tombs tam s scraps scrape scra a at of pottery weapons armaments s and Inscriptions on papyrus ant and n stone A typo apart Is li tho Biblical archaeologist II Ps ts explorer and hunter theologian and ana foreman ot oC oo works work geologist and botanist tnt nil nd scholar and 1 diplomat es especially ally diplomat S since nce tribal Chiefs chiefe must U w humored and anol picks and shovels put In InI tie lie I e hinds hands s of or Arabs who never worked Tore bi Having Havins resolved to read reail the tho stones atones of ot Syria ErIa and Egypt for tor Bible n testimony the larned of all nations agreed this must be bo bedone I done on scientific olin lines cs that mch ench now new new find night might be bo welcomed with tho the same earno elastic given to work from a n a I physical laboratory And so to military engineers were borrowed front the war offices and Oriental scholars scholar from rora tho the museums Sir Charles Sir Charles Wilson Lord Kitchener I und Captain Conder Condor represented England l M Clermont and 1 tho who do Franco France Herr fort Conrad Schick and lis colleagues Germany and Dr Cloy Clay Trumbull America At first J was raised and Christians of all scots with Hebrews tho the world over grow grew keenly In Interested Interested e 1 Wore were high R Sir Austin n fresh crab from marvellous Babylonian discoveries eries M et spoke s of the light s to bo ho thrown on all o n naura tu tta ancient history arts nu d aura I cl ar c tho Iho Jewish nation by hY CYC excavations av a lion 6 of ot o f mounds Mound and sites n rubbish heaps and ruins I I luch m as ne dot the tho stony taco faco of Palest Palestine Inc I SIr Bir i Itol 1 1 on a Il Great gNat geog geographer 6 eo b I robber counselled coun u geological survey Ho IIII Ii 1 I ant I to know whether any nn chances had hn occurred about ahmit th the tha Dead Bead Sea Bea Scan wl t do historic times timeR This ho h o a n d might I throw now lIew light lIht on tho story ot or Sodom m and I Gomorrah Tho Hermans were as keen e as ILl as any to toI tol I turn hum loose tho lire hosts of oC science In the rho Holy lloS l Land teBI where the tho documents of or our aliI faith I were written n and tho the momentous events tUy describe enacted Who Vho knows they All may moy bo bG made malo clear Homo some inscription like the th far tar tamed famed atone Dione which gave no us liB th s key kc r to In nil all J IS R g hieroglyphics 1 d o ro gY I 1 whir a and threw buck bade 0 1 mans roans history years be beyond b yond fond alt til previous records recorder MIRACLES OF DC THE TilE DAY DAV DAVAni And Ani money they t ey pointed out lutes had Men been on Nineveh and Carthage Then why not on 00 UtO tho land of oC Mc i and Christ Snob Knoll a 0 country ocher r all ta length might bo be trav tra fra d a In bt live five hours houri l II by y rail find and Its Us breadth in iii Inn area U than 1111 an two f 1 six seemed mod so rAt a t j in the th When Whon David l fled x h om n Haul he was wan not yot Jot forty Corty miles from nor more moro than fifty from Ol 01 b nit roc ii I Saul Baul pt abode Amt Ami remains were Intact here which Sonia wholly In less INa favored lime The fh country should be bo mapped points of oC topogrAphy soiled Bottled tho towns ot of Holy Writ R 1 with i modern villages built high on rubbish taps above their walls and ami temples An int roads w were ro to bet 1 1 traced coins In n and other othor relics sy U 1 1 and collated for far our greater 1 i of oC tho who Inhabitant of 1111 toman Tt Tile Th tombs of ot the ho kings on an Mount ZIon Mon It f ItO 50 o was waB wa ho the pool peal of oC nUll amt tho spring J at lf klai l vert foot toot was wa Wall to yield some somes I s roc ot of n II aught II pant NL Am Ani 1 the tha Holy City CIl worn many MI Mount drought ht to 10 be b tho thorn rn i t of Jt Abrahams and rr Cr tl IL 1 1111 iu Holy Place of or the tha a ng stones atones which they that say aay I Israel l rACi hoer 1 r up from Jordans bed h I and Bama Hania wul John Johl Ina t tomb t the LJ nf pt castles and the thu th I cities along the tho o CO quart a t I ll WH I the Hie mounds nt of It und anti J JI Jez r rii at t I ii of qt Ahab and ami Jezebel It AM n e mo ho level leol Of oC the iho Hen of It was vas I ash ill II upon this Ihle de dc der r t I r fall Ur air of or the tho th s true hII run It I seemed ni d o to 10 Ihl the pick and rot that men nten risked health sad lift life ID in Boulli American ter Jr At t II never ht of lit ilg ro of mK III Homo share haro of pf their to to 10 the IMO f t rc S P i M EGYPTIAN r e AH TAlt OP OF JER i 0 lilies and cedars lions Bons eagles and foxes taxes Immortalized In the tho classic Book Doole dad And III it was was strange fo o 0 see seo from what un unexpected expected ex quarters light was Willi east cost on mi hopeless problems Conder COli del discovered red ered I tho the long lone lost city Kadesh of the Hittites through Information read rend In III hieroglyphics on an nn Egyptian I monument 2000 years old Condor Conder was tho the born horn Picture e the thc man on camel Kick hack In tho the awful burning desert about the IIi Dead Son Soft or in n rags grovelling In wells and holes toles with hIs hla notebook In one hand band and the book of Joshua In the other that book which is the central focus of oC Biblical topography Conder never laid down n it newly newty found name or n a ruin mill on his map without Inquiring ing what connection It had with the tho Su St crol Narrative Ills marvellous intuition Int null and wide wille knowledge told him that some old ruin made mada up III of or nothing but hut a few tew scattered and mournful broken cisterns taint faint shadows of or foundations and scraps raps of at broken pottery was In reality tho Bite of oC u a 1 city long wanted to tit lit into III to It its ta l place for tho the determination atlon of a tribe boundary It was such men teen as Oil Condor Conder Condors that encouraged civilization to s spend pud C 1 nearly n a million dollars In to this fascinating t alln 6 work Tho T ho very first expedition that the t under un r Colonel Sir air Charles Wilson Nilson WIle on n R B h was A I whole year at work Worle Observations were made mado at III different points be between tween twee n Beirut and fUld Ito 1 and u nd n a series aeries le of detailed maps maId resulted ono one mile mUe to the tho knob covering the whole backbone of oC the country from north to south Including the tho Lake Lako of oC G Inscriptions were wl ro copied plans pi aM of churches tombs tomb temples And nol synagogues drawn squeezes zes token taken of tho Lila tablets tablate of and Assyrian and 1 r 1 all d Hebrew self nd Samaritan tAn Inscriptions P tone Systematically tho who Bible n episodes wore fastened upon upon and verified with amazing 1 rt Thus the tho ruins of at on the tho Lake Lale of II wore were fixed upon Ulton as I S thin the scene of oC tho destruction of the herd of or twine possessed by devils Just here horo wax wan 01 tho nc P place and ond no other point of at tho was mae suitable I Warren Varr 1 d dId l great groat work worl In and Mil around J rul Before ale tho came tho the questions Conn disputed were the tho l o site Ito of the tho and the tho walls waILs of at tho the present Pre known vs ts I tho the Hanim Barum cs es Sh und 1101 the silo of oC Church In turn In Involved d the tho site silo both truo true and traditional of fit the tho Holy o liro Kor Scholars had 1 over oer SliM silts no ro WB lose s than sixteen dl zi a aIU en dif different dl f t Cent ferent of ot tho thu tl IU ancient a n Cie tit city elty Y were One school contended that IHo rho ar tun Tomb rat t ll 1 of oC tho Iho Roc Hock within wit 1 n tho the Temple enclosure Is In III reality Co ConstAn linos tines and that the tha cave beneath It Is In truth the Holy ITol so 30 that the tho present traditional idle lle must have l been bUI n fraudulently to I up III the tow Mow of or pilgrims Pilgrim from all park or of tin the t e world Our QUI merely topographical references In the th the glowing descriptions d of at tho the wrItings writing notices of oC the tha th city found in ancient n and o col t a last J cal history tho the travels or of early pilgrims tho tha thalie tholie lie Ile of oC the till ground architectural evidence and Immemorial tradition excavations showed d that modem Jerusalem stands lands on lit III least sixty foot feet of or h d In more thou than one onn thin tho tonic rock Is I only lit at JH foot feet Ji below low lowthe the tho second In tho the Temple he ho sank de d deep p shafts through to the tho foundations and took look rock levels I In this WilY way showing the thu contour of or the tha entire un lire city A As Ae tim city c ty appears ground today the tho th proud words word of Jose Joan O Oo nil plum UN the passionate love lov of ot the ancient Ih lf for tor city and their Pra dsa ot of UK Its ancient to tho the ordinary not u m I little absurd o In III tho tits tl of mt crumbling gray gruy halls narrow limits limit and mill oman nan lint lilt restore rc torl tho the oily city tu to tot t ho world d lie r trl I T r d the Iho rubbish tut hleb tram from thin Ihn melts showed l the III diR walla wit within n III its II walls willi I 1000 foot toul f lonu g gand and SOO 0 cut C I In III k of ot II I JU lie It tl way was lIa too who laid gp n o s f ri t d r r 11 ia a 0 if 1 1 r t T ws r 1 9 a roer 4 1 i til H OR Olt JR A G AT A tT AT f j jIN IN TIre THE TROTH P li OF or E HE HC HETHE wAS IL ti THE 1111 W N Ol f 1 11 OF O 1 r ra a j C t IROM ROM Y tl To TH t AIO rs 1114 a r S 5 tJ i tr r JI t tm m 4 l j r lo tc as a i U t Is ls Uk rt 11 I 1 td thu u valleys valley v till then covered up and nd Judy den d e n opened up n secret passages la cs at ancient t aqueducts an and d famous a t um bs j I I I And while Willie ho tie vas at work Pala lill l I Ir Imer mer r and C F Drake Druk hud had gone gOllo I out Into Inlo the thu Ih ot of the Exodus alone altee p i and on u n foot tOol as liS rat poof a S fl a r s wit wl tr 1 lout servants set L m but b tt t with I t tN JEa a of language u ab o and custom aJ a W v ar I IrIch 2 a rIch harvest They Thoy rh reported tit ra n circles or o r cromlechs c s ono oIto hundred huri aed led t f eb w In diameter with s sepulchral m s an n l the Wu ancient all altar tars of ot giant Baal tho the sun god godi go l 1 i 1 The rhu American Dr Clay Trumbull was In Inthe the Iha same somo 8 region Lilts Like many traveller ha he t t rw M charmed chir ern with u the 11 II III A oases o in this burning Acs ft t ln A 1 Burgled islanding out from tho the limestone hills was an nn Isolated 1 mass mass which tho the great greal authority author authorIty Ity It Rowlands lieu lands upon as M the emIt smitten ten n by Moses Monos to give Rivo forth water Prom From beneath this rocky rex k spur an tin abundant I dant dint 1 iris gushes he a forth i today There was n s Yew Now ow IhlI look Doll to this ousts Dr 11 says say 6 11 especially In hl tho flowers flower grass and weeds 1101 It 11 was i unlike u anything an l I had sl cn In tho the Penin Peninsula l 1 lIln sula of at Stint Sinai Thero were bees be and birds i end CitI c ml ant un lulls made malle of oC green greengrass greengrass grass seed leed Instead all of oC mind Band l The birds worn WIrl ro larks and quails juall such OA ns n rewarded Xhu tu ho Children mid and 1111 as os I rested l under tho the shady tho tim water Itself was hardly less ells of ot otI a loaning I to me Ins than Luau 1 ID to a tha I Palmer P a I and Drake discovered tho ito 7 of DC Judge I L 17 l It ll Is amazing how hOLY names persist In this corner canter ot or the tho world wand Ioro than three thousand l live five hundred hun yeses yoaw have rolled away since nine Judah h wont went with his hla brother and they thay slow low the tho Ih that tl nt In I II I habited and utterly 1 it Tho country hM beat bemi successively I HomAn Christian thin and nud Mohammedan and yet jot ot here hern Is u the tho surviving to tn title thin day any moans n II watch tower ruins tA V VI I rd long milt and Oa yards wide wore Were found together with romaine of C temples n II tower and ond two tIo reservoirs re IN WISTERN PALESTINE P AH M to Valentino Palestine al I n II reap mop lip hind Imd boon been prepared 1 for tor Um lh gr tt t Napoleon from ham Ocr Jer Berman Jerman man and French Un his hl In III his ills hand hund the great a who hud hati fifteen tWeen years for the Journey set not forth Orth from to 1 Ills His companion died 11 11 from torn in hi the tho terrible desert norl n a French I expedition exp tinder the Inn do da l J mud mapped I limo Uio D eul id ana aall but hut their work in 11 turn hunt by br t tint that tI lt of 11 It K 11 l with whit Urae is I l Both noli full fell 1 In ht tb fl l 1 was house home while poor Drake hind Imd died 1111 11 ot of favor His illy III I lu o pOPl tak talan n by hI Kitchener J In 1 then th tha Q t l t of or 1 end and this the nod UN as u a result OX Ot 0 III were 1116 viiri vor V I lied 0 weal of II the tho Jordan i Among other others ih tl thee i ancient rite en eat royal a l of oC 14 l the thu no of 11 his lIucc ors w w ru IU cover l 1 nl Mid t 1 l tat I 1 h lo jg Ute this S n J r tua ts t l t d by b Y th the e a atory t of Sera t he Canaan tin uan ito it u general gIral traced d S every O er step of ot he tIto tIton traceI tea c el 1 o of lit t this master r ot ut n WO WI ot r ol es o drool Iron Shera a its 18 W know knoN was wa drawn to I tb to the e Hive Kish on Jk ud r s iv lv 7 r and d is o I charlotte ers came canto t to 10 at In this river near kit 1 der l alm c xUI 10 Conden Couden round you i ie e nse 1 enough that tIlls this ba battlefield tt 1 c fi old WILlI w aA name named d with tho Ui ee ono one no The Tho of or Mount Tahoe lion Here 1 re tha th French l drove acct o the Turks Tur into to the tho s very cry or saute same treacherous of ot the tIe Springs Springe A elm ella n of tC Pools and ami springs with will reeds and rushes marks the thi th rivers Course e oven even In the Ih Along Alon this hla line lino fled fin l chariots and horse horsemen hur men Jell of tho 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