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Show r Saturday, Febnftiiv 26. 1927. THE LOGAN CITY, CACHE JOURNAL. COUNTY. UTAH PAGE NINE- - Buried Cilie of Arm Uracoves T r --j- Excavations Reveal 1 objec-thm- Civilizations of Ancient , Palestines Conquerors -- Bible Describes Scene as .Mankinds Last Battlefield. in plan , .w -- 1 Tjto&tZ "6!Lo4 a 1 d T u.- TWT Itt: ,r r- - i 4 vv . - nz .jj , :: . .ip - rC .. . lTT'siV If 4'v C,V Story of Balt! ei-.- on ", Ef7pHn Trapl Ifia CiV. of which THIS BnUjo.MgtIaU lies a (Us'it luwunt. Lreribed ca Atvcn- at I tho 1 . gw. tempoi o' Xrnak, Egyot it ac .e'abert te '? rd ot it, v.1 leh ha been Doctor Breasted and inoudod In his by Hlslm-- of Lgvpt " , r is here It Impossible the battles and occweuitlons of ;!egikir. after 1479 B. C. After death of Tlnjiinote In the pcvww of Egypt declined imd Ililesime, at terns, the northern part of it, reverted to a eountryof petty kingdoms, no doubt overshadowed by the Illtrtt. power on the north But under itamws II thero was a r vjval of Egyptian power and an army Vod by him pame northward, presumably past Megiddo, and advanced fur Into North Syria, where it was die, zed by tlie Illttltes. From this campaign resulted the first treaty which has surTlved In a written record. From the Bible we learn that In the day of liie Judges the neighborhood of Megiddo wit si 5 tli it , s . : - v V y? aettlemeot now top of tho Hill Of Megiddo, the Armageddofi', de aenbed in tho Bible.' tn tho 'background at tho loft aro tho hill of Nazaroth. In tho cantor background it Mount Grlboa, beyond which Ifeo ' the River Jordan, of the Roman being uncovered at tK Ruint i Ikris-Fuphinte- iunt ;d Rebuilt Through Thousands of Years rHIS process of decay and rebuilding went on for of yeais. swelling the sie of tlie original shortly after reaching Megiddo. and the excavating was retarded tn eonaecpwnee. Describing the planning of Chicago House, Doctor Breustpd says; Certain features were easily provided. Me kn.vv we could get plenty of local lone for the walls and fonnrtaffons, wood and ive roof to Haifa to coveting for the roof, and a enntrm-t-oprovide Hie workmen and Jnperiiilend the const rnctina But there was another feature not so easily provided The Megiddo expedition l the most,.' complete) j fashion weapons mid implemc nK fiom copper Beneath equipped expedition of ilk kind ever sent to Palestine eity, it is believed, will he found a settlement of The equipment is valuable and demands tlie utmost is needed "ate Stone Ace Alteadv in the Hilt have been found piotei fion from fire The same "violences of Babylonian. Assuinn, Kgvptian, Hebrew for the valuable ot)Hct taken from the Hill and stored of other occ the within These most lionsp objects certainly cannot end nitrite settlements or then tipation tie replaced if lost, and they are the sole reason for It is revealed that in tin eailv times of Infant an of Bones w ttie House expedition Also, ttdeugo is practiced virtually is tlie human sacrifice an a. iar set JD.the foundations of a home of tlie members of tbe expedition, mid, will be for vave beoa-fuuniicl hurled the live years that the exeav atTwns a re 1 n progress. Its uiilding. The Infant was pechaiis killed lie re that its spit it might stav near to its body and destruction, then, watild be an htcakul.tble loss. ms ward off evil sphits ft can the building. 'To meet tills need for fire protection tt was decided to obtain 20 000 square feet of sheet cook wtillhoard in This swollen Hill of Megiddo twentv two miles inland south-tsterthe is toward which the Cnited States, to have the sheetrock orated and yim the city of H.tifi. end of the Mediterranean Sea, Is a vast shipped by wafer to Haifa and then hauled overland rec-n- i been has and lore d easnre-hqus- e of ari heohigie hen the by motor truck to tlie site of Chicago House. zed as such for many years Lxeavations on an shpetimk armed members of Hie expedition were livunlit the not were begun were in ing tents; high winds wearing the tents badly; lequate scale, however, 8 ttmmi of 192r, when the evpedltion of the Oriental the autumn rains were imminent, and it was imperaf on a .stuited of Chicago f sir, the house be made tive that habitable its soon. as .tltute 6f the Inuersitv ne year excavation program ;a.W possible. Bee ause of its portability and tlie large sire of each The orghnizntion and weak of tlie Oriental Institute faPrenc hing tind unique It is a research laboratory, panel, the slieetrock , vas quickly united into place on 4 2W walis and ceilings. Wind infiltration was cut down and '5 rather, a whole series of laboratories and the stages to trace processes is aim natural of from the the lose general insulating iwopertles we moderns have wliieh the slieetrock ts made helped to keepgyiistim tlie interior iltl long development by winch Come what we are. This ami involves the. Institute warm. And the needed fire protection was prov ided. s elvlllz.a-citost i the task of recovering a whole group of F l.crs it Hill a Natural Fortress in the Near Faist. where western civilization 1ms link-i- g i 4 roots. The envisioning of tins comprehensive f- - JZ.Jt.-.AHAS been said, the importance of the Till! of in up of mans beginnings wllli their culmination Megiddo from many thousands of years before the 4 ''ek vilized cultures is clue to Hr James H. Breasted, tlie dawn of written history which Itself begins some n r r rector of the Oriental Institute. Doctor Breasted not thousands of years before Christ up until the year r: t v l.xiuu jitter u prat mil program, but hs Jy Organized 1919, when Allentvy defeated the Turk there, we due acie that program so vital in its appeal that John . to Its strategic location. In a phrase, the Hill Is a V , , wkefefler, Jr, provided funds through which the natural fortress. As such it was used by the primitive ' C t aitute was given life. peoples of the Early Bronze Age, who dwelt In the limestone cares near the base, supplied with fresh University of Chicago Headquarters in water from a spring near the summit, and holding some Chicago Heus of the Orion tal Institute of tho University of Chicago.- - To protect Itvoo of tho mom. MTE headquarters of the Oiiental Institute are bora of tho expedition and tho object taken from tho Hill the structure ii of fireproof construction, with Chi- - advantages over their enemies because of the then of Chlversitv the at Museum Haskell Oriental masonry watte, a roofcovering and a lining of Incombustible rock wallboard, Kdith slight eminence of the mound. eo. The Museum itself, administered by Mrs. Bah the passing of the years more and more people dis Institutes the constitutes , Ware as secretary, to this eonnfry of Northern Balestlne. where city and with other people who had come from hill wars niready have been waged tor Mi possession, and visitor may get a graphic Idea of emigrated Its walls have resounded with tbe cry of battle. Palty rooms, where on the Plain of Megiddo they found pasturage for tlielr and plain to barter wares with the taravtm. and the works Institute the which We vutne, then, to about tbe year 1479 li. 0. Tlie estine, now, e materials with a land ringed in on ail It border by thicks and soil ferttle for titling. They came presummeet. must ' i lems that it country of Palestine ha a considerable population, powerful and competing nations. which ably in tribes or family groups, driving their flocks Tit expedition, (Megiddo) In ins into this corridor land In about 1479 B. C., With twenty Besides the Armageddon cities, village or on the plains, under the before them and living In rode shelters of skins or in Held as director, Fischer S. ill charge of Dl. Clarence rulership of various petty king or chieftains, some of thousand men at his back, marched tbe great Egyptian , s eaves. whom boost considerable state, while others have no Pharaoh lliuttnose III, styled by Doctor Breasted "the Oriental Institute is conducting four other espedi-oPalestine at Northern Into inflUmtton this And while expedition the are: Eplgraphic more elaborate court, than & tent or a mud dwelling, abroad. These Napoleon of ids times, to punish the settlers of northll. was going on. great empire were growing up found CivHtariou vor In Ijqmr Lgypt, in charge of Dr. Han'ht has advanced considerably fnon. tlie time ern Palestine lot revolting against the rule that bad Vr t Alan about It. with the grentest of all, Egypt, to tlie of in tlianre Texts and the first infUtratUius of the .been Imposed on them by hi fattier. Apparently the of tje project, Non: the Cottm earned Inch and with Assyria and Babylonia on the east nomads. retie! had new of Ids coming, Tor there wa gathered Gardiner as editor, the work of Hi is were Palestine Norther In tut tlie of these times : the people at tlie fortress of Megiddo a coalition of dative princes In Cairo and London especially Pales-tin- e of Hebrew Settlement more Tune for themselves civilized: through Mr. growing of and kings W resist tbe Egyptian army, Thutmose folns in Asia Minor, Indians , ran the International trade route, the path enough, It Is believed that the lowed the natural route trow Egypt around the east and the IrehlstSHc Survey of I directed INTERESTINGLY n; by tbe hoofs of camels padded n tbe traders took their had not yet arrived in Palestine, end of tlie Mediterranean and toward ' ' uft in both and Western Asia, Megiddo. v are from caravan wares researches the cultured In to come kingdom were extensive highly by beginning Sandforil. Severn! they family though peihups K S sdmintxtra-of Egypt to tlie citbss of North .Syria, Assyria, and groups nnd tribes from the southeast, either seeking a in prcigc ess in Chicago Itself. General t Learns of Enemy at Megldtlo ects Is mam- - Buhytonia. And on the main trade route lay Megiddo. pasturage for tlielr flocks or fleeing from the pressure oversight of the different Institute pro A trading caravan honnd front Egypt for cities of the Allen. A T YKHF.M, according to Doctor Breasted, "he of another iieojrte. The settled dwellers in Palestine 1 aed be the .sec retary. Dr. T. George learned of the enemys occupation of Megiddo expedition not the least of north would follow the line of tlie neacoast a round Usn whom tlie Hebrew now Intruded Were presumMegiddo h tlie (dunning Hie southeast corner of tlie Mediterranean, Thence it ably tlie ranauulte of Biblical mention. " and he called a council of bis officers to ascertain tbe housing problem l he solved wak the Troper would turn with the Medtrerrimenn at Its Megiddo at tins time Is a walled city, densely most favorable riute firr crossing the ridge (Carmel). of the rial and the vainaide records left, shifting northward, gradually inland to cross tbe intercepting populated within its narrow confines, seeming to strain . . , There were three roads practicable for an 1 StfSTta be mken from the fill. Csequmitlv. Honse were Ridge of tarmel t It most practicable ioirit the at tbe very walls that hold It in, boasting aa indearmy, leading from Ye hern over the mountain one us for what now is known as .riilrago defile it pendent ruler and command of the trade route fiom which made a direct line by way of Arena from the gates The I in Pus of Megiddo. Filing through the ' te at the Oriental Institute in i lueago. and east, into and past the city of Megiddo; and two involving a detour to either side. plain guarded hy the fortified Egypt t tle qwt-twell attested by would emerge upon - . lance of w b careful planning la the city of Megiddo. Here tlie caravan would pause for pad the hoofs of carnet. In its streets or outside It I burnmne characteristically favored the direct route, s precautions fact that even with all thecame to trade with the people of tlie walls there Is trading In the bazaars. Perhaps miy but his officers urged that the other roads were more down with malaria rest and auppliM, and ire staff of the expedition 1111 of Megiddo and burying within the Hill records f antiquity which sdentisfs now me digging out. The vhole bus been roughly likened to a liver rake with en ihiitinns and conquests itles representing sm hurled layer on layer within, the last si ttlement on yip, he others beneath in the older of their building. At Hie top has boon found a Romm settlement Excavations near the base reveal tiaccs of a settlement of people vvjio lived In wlits known as the L uly Bronze tjfej Utg age when mankind hist vvas learning to fire-resi- st r , Meg-cld- o n Bnr 'IA z AS u I. ,' at z 1 1 mlh-wes- t. card-dwelle- h a " -- y & , . ). ntx luu.ih . -1T,r ,.c-- , o' n nm nts and human re tut a Moit of mauhind from tlie tinio mlo limitiis made their kills t,th u i j nils of .tone or bronze, now me Imn; takm fimn the Hill of Moaiddn tin i n.ugi ililon" desa died In the Bible. I avt fiom Megiddo plainly are seen the Hills of Nunutli, whuli knew the feet of Jesus. North nud e tst is the sei of Galilee. A few hours s Journey by airplane is the valley, which may hpe been the oadle of m u kind. Some to miles south the Jerusalem sixty The llill of Merr ddo tod.n is a paint, bare mound, thirteen acres in at tlie top, resembling somewhat a but te of the sniirjiwcstein Ameni tn desert. Fast It hate Budged some of the gieatesi armies of the world. It has known the oieiloidsi ip of l.gipt and Nineveh, From the bnsflmg eity that mice niatked its Bit Jews were pained rapines to B, Union. In limestone rates at Its ba-- e Ihed and dted primitive peoples who knew no other shelter than a ae. It has known tfi dead Macedonian phalanx of the Gieat Alexander and his dream of wmli' dominion. It lias known the legions of Rome. It has w at lied the ( rusnders on their way to recover the llolv Sepulchre fiom the infidels. Napoleons campaign to Etpt and the Bast brought the I.lttle Corporal' aimies near to it And in 1910 the British general, lord Allenlu, defi ited the 'links at Megiddo ami ended Geinian dominance In that corner of the world Before the once tlniving city of Megiddo wore fonght numerous battles. Many miles its walls weie assaulted. It story is one of countless deaths, of victoiy and defeat ; a story of pillage arid dextrin tion. Bet because of Its strategic location, destruction, paitinl or complete, would be followed b rebuilding. Time would elapse Broken mud brick walls would be washed b tlie rains, would collapse and heroine pail of the Hill. Into the Hill would fall the we minis oinaicits, utensils, tombs and places of wur.ii'a Then in an irtennl vmilcl be built if peace people would lituiii Ho-e- -' tguin on the sites of the old Refuse, as almost always u olden times, would be tin own in.o the tieet. would ee ay, become earth again mid go to nu lease the size t the Hill. main--- ; vance guad bn figlt'mr while cmr rosr guard la yet s an Lag in Am riN V These showed , a good mllilurv understanding of tho dingers of the pas; but ILwinov swore a round oath thfct he would pice ig'lnt his enemies by tb oust direri; route rqJ fey might follow or nor as . they pleased . And move sninH them be did, rertim him In that ;h genorels minmanclng ttio re or of dts army oppose to t v , wd he would sentlng npintoua, lv'iaps they come nround by one ot ch 1M d!'.et.,I ''votes and Isad preimc-- to rec ai tshht plieo other " than before tho ?um ot M'vkblo. At vy rate they let Mm get Ids army sfely t) of jho pass and drswn up on tt p'tla tsfora Me dy. In the ronlUof CDageiuiit Thutmeaa wsa completely . KhccessftJ. jV "V-S- Native Arab at Work ExcaYatlng the Hill, i nessed the defeat of the Canaonite general, SI sera, hy Deborah nnd Barak. Later the cltywas fortified hy Solomon. At Jezreel, near by, the usurper Jehu slew King Joram of Israel ami i King Ahaziah of Judah; and Ahsztah, wounded, fled to and died at Megiddo. Still later. King Joslah of Judah, as a loyal vassal of Assyria opposed at Megiddo the hqstUe approach e Npcbo, king of Egypt, and was alaln In hi attempt. Under Tiglath Plleser in, Rargon II, Sennach erib and Ashurbanlpal the Assyrians controller Hie city. And It was Nebuchadnezzar, the Clial dean, w ho carried the Jews from Palestine cap t tires to Babylonia. f Valuable Objects Already Recovered e this scene of war and spoliation ; AND pow proud boasts of kings; this harsh appearing and forbidding mound that played tt port throughout the history of Palestinev begin ning long before the first penetration of tha Semitic nomad folk from the Arabian deter lands who became the Jews of th Bible a from whom came the founder of Christianity this 'll ill of Megiddo Is bustling with quiet an purposive activity as the work of exeavatln goes ob nnd tlie objects that tell so much of tt lives of the people who lived and died there at taken from the Hill for the enlightenment Of th. age sad the ages that are to come. Already the Oriental Institute of the Un Tensity of Chicago has uncovered pottery ram ,t ing from before the Bronze Age down to th Byzantine. A Roman city Is being laid bare aer the summit There are Babylonian cylinder sea for the stamping of clay documents. There Egyptian scarabs. But most Important of all, thus far, fa a ' of a huge memorial tablet of the Pham Shlshak, the Egypt lairvuier who captured Jer salem in the Tenth century before Christ Tt Bible says of Khishak, In tbe Book of Kings: "And it came to pass In the fifth year of Klr Itehoboam that Sliis! ink, king of Egypt came against Jerusalem ; and he took away the trea ura of the house of Jehovah ; he even took awa all ; and betook away all the shields ft gold tha- - . Solomon had made. It Is hoped that as excavations ko on. the re mamlng fiagments of the Shlshak tablet will b found la the Hill, that the whole may be ptee together and that front It will be read tM ,, Pharaoh's own ctery of Ids conquest of Paleethu , fra-we- |