Show EXPEDITION FINDS ANTIOCH HOUSE HOUSE 1600 YEARS OLD Arch Archeologists have havo dug up a villa vitis at Antioch that dates from 1000 years ears ago It has ban colonna colonnades lies and mosaic mo mC- sale pavements along with domes dome decorated with colored glass glaM and gold cold leaf It was found at Daphne or rather a suburb of or that ancient place In Yak to a modern suburb of An An- tI och The fhe discovery was made mad by bl the tho Princeton university expedition There Is l In the suburb a a huge circus or stadium three times as largo as Palmer Palmer lalmer Pal Pal- mer stadium at Princeton that seats t and lend lead and terra cotta pipes were wre found In place along with a hugo t bath All were built It Is I. surmised surmised surmised sur sur- In GO 17 B B. 0 C. by Quintus Mar MIlr- clus clue Rex Ilex proconsul of et Antioch goes back buk to years eara before before be be- fore tore Christ and was named after by his son Bon It was the ancient capital of the Greek kings of Syria and was located on the Orontes some Bome twenty miles milts from the tho sea Bea Its port vort was Selencia It Is II frequently mentioned In the New Testament and It was there that disciples of our Savior were first called Christians Christiana Syria was first conquered by bT and nd later Pompey lompey captured cap tuned by the tho Persians and made n a heap beep of f ruins ruin It was restored bythe by bl bythe the I Emperor Justinian In In Inthe Inthe th the Seventh century tho the Saracens took It and held It for years Now it Is II a poor town manufacturing ing lag Silks ellks leather and carpets and anel producing goats goat's wool and beeswax |