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Show i Unearthing Records of Christ Looms as Grave of HerooVs Cousin Is Found PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9 Tho nearest approach to unearthing contemporary con-temporary records of Christ today was announced by lr George Byron Gordon, Gor-don, director of ihe museum of the j University of Pennsylvania, The discovery dis-covery was made by Dr. Clarence Stanley Stan-ley Fisher, director of excavations at Both Shan In Pulestlne Th.- discovery wan tl,.- burial place of Antlochus, the first cousin of Herod the Great Antlochus in all probability probabil-ity lr Gordon asserted, waa one of th.- men charged bs n.-r...i with directing di-recting the slaughter of Ihe children In Bethlehem as narrated by Mat i hew i" 1 -"ti ei foi t to kin the Chris! child who had been d scribed by the wise men as the- ' King of the J. ws " "The Interesting part is that the father,' Dr. Fisher wrote. "Phallloh was killed in this district during a, battle with Pompeii, and his BOB Antlochus wan supposed to have died some time later. The discover) of his coffin in our cemetery proved this point beyond a dout.t So far as ' Know tii is the first Sarcophagus jEf the Herodlan family that has I found." e,n Dr. Gordon also announced ' ,, Fishor had found, iti deeper , , , , p-elH Ol ,- occupation th" fust known Sarcophagi Sarco-phagi of the Philistines, v. ho defeated King Saul, on Mount Gil!. oh. vn.? overshadows the ancient fojr8s city, and cutting off his l-jrfTT hauled his body to the 1 " Wyfffl Levels o;x" ,.','tp.. so far. have been rfund ifBethshan, Dr. Gordon de-. de-. aftf while more are known to be '"'w The sit.- is said to have been decupled for a longer continuous period per-iod than anv other place of human 'habitation. It was also th. most fought over spot In ihe world, since it serves as ihe gateway between Mesopotamia Meso-potamia ..mi Bgypi and weary 'to the conquest of Palestine. |