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Show Riches of Ancient Antioch Revealed ings in marble and bronze. Beyond the promenades rose the handsome facades of government buildings. "At night the main street was a great white way. Despite its gayety, however, Antioch's path was often strewn with sorrow. Its walls were frequently pounded by jealous enemies. en-emies. While the columned highways, walls, gates and handsome buildings are memories, a large part of the modern mod-ern city is built of the stones that once witnessed the processions and chariot races of 'Antioch the Glorious.' "Antioch has been succeeded commercially com-mercially by Aleppo. Today its largest larg-est industries are shoe and soap making mak-ing and hide tanning." Explorers Are Busy in Once Gay Capital of Syria. Washington. Antioch, which has yielded many rich treasures of antiquity, an-tiquity, again is the scene of explorations explora-tions which recently uncovered a picture pic-ture gallery in the form of a paneled mosaic floor. "Modern Antioch, a drab city of 30,-000 30,-000 inhabitants, lying about 15 miles tip the Orontes river from the Mediterranean, Medi-terranean, is a mere shadow of the gay city that once was the capital of the great empire of Seleucus Nicator, favorite of Alexander the Great, and later capital of the Roman empire in the Orient," says a bulletin from the (National Geographic society. "Traditionally, Antioch owes its location lo-cation to the flight of an eagle. An-tigonia, An-tigonia, built in 307 B. C., a few miles north of Antioch, was planned to be the fountainhead of government, commerce com-merce and industry In the Near East While Seleucus was offering sacrifices at an altar In the city, an eagle swooped down, caught a piece of meat from the altar, and flew to the banks of the Orontes river. Seleucus inter-. inter-. preted the eagle's act as an omen that the gods wished him to found a capital capi-tal on the river. "The outstanding feature of the new city was the four-mile main street that connected the east and west gates. On each side rose double rows of lofty marble columns between which Ben Bur drove his chariot and Caesar paraded pa-raded in triumph. Flanking the street was a marble-paved, covered promenade prom-enade adorned with statues and carv- |