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Show FAKED ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES There is so much public Interest In the extraordinary reports of golden ' antiquities found by the British diggers dig-gers In the tombs of tho kings and Solomon's Temple and in the Moslem riots in Jerusalem that It Is well to givo the latest truthworthy news received re-ceived from Professor Reisner, who has been lately excavating In Samaria, and from Professor C R Brown, who is now in charge of the American School of Archaeology In Jerusalem It would be curious to read just now the Arabic and Hebrew Jpurnals published pub-lished in Syria and Palestine, Xor they nould be full of most ridiculous stories sto-ries There Is no doubt that tho Turkish governor of Jerusalem was heavily bribed to give his consent to the profanation of the Omar Mosque by the excavation of the English party, and tho custodian of tho Mosque was also bribed. Over what is called the Sacred Rock there is a marble slab that sounded hollow and was thought to cover an old cistern This was removed and search was made for passages under It. The English Eng-lish excavators, who had been working at Ophel. moved tjie stone and did what Ihey could, but they were seen and a fuss was made, and the Englishmen Eng-lishmen took carriages to Jaffa and and boarded their yacht and escaped, but their Italian lawyer was arrested, the sheiks of the mosque are in prison, pris-on, and the head man Is In Irons and bniely escaped lynching. Nothing could have proved the unfitnest of these gentlemen for archaeological re-htarch re-htarch better than the fact that they thought to find valuable objects in 1 i "& such a placo and were willing to take i'a the risk Involved In entering iL They Ify have steadily refused permission to ' competent scholars" to visit their work, j and an expedition of this sort 1s mere- ' ly destructive to lilstorlcal material, 'jj Captain Parker leports from London g that nothing valuable was found, and jc all we know of to thank them for Is ! j that they cleaned out the Slloam tun- j nel so that a visitor can walk through it upright. They raised a riot which ,, endangered tho lives of all Christians I j In Perusalem and found no gold. Thp ! t Independent. fr |