Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
PEOPLE. PREDATING
4 EGYPTIANS FOUND
Tomb Marked "Jesus, Son of
Joseph" Also Among
Discoveries.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February IA new
preface to history has been written in
the last few days by delivers into the
misty past on many fronts.
Evidence of Neolithic civilization,
antedating the most ancient Egyptian
dynasty, has just come to light, as wen
as finds of tomb marked Jesus, Son
of Joseph" a chapel wherein men wor-
SHIPPED the little-known goddess pa
Sag" Notifications in old Jericho, what
appears to be partial confirmation of the
story of Daniel, the ruins of city
bearing the marks of an ancient flood
and cemetery that indicates the lost
city Of Beth Netopha is near.
The Neolithic evidence comes from
81 Medal, a suburb of Cairo, on the
eastern bank Of the Nile, where excava-
tons have just been completed by the
Egyptian University.
Show How People Lived.
There, the finds show, the ancient
people lived in oval-shaped dwellings,
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cultural and pastoral pursuits. They
used pottery and implements of baSalt,
limestone, flint and stone.
The chapel of Pa-Sag was unearthed
by the University of Pennsylvania
British Museum expedition near Or OF
the ChaldeeA The goddess was protector
Of the desert paths" and apparently
the last prayer or sacrifice to her was
offered 1000 years ago. The diggers
found her limestone image clad in a
hounced gown. A bull-footed demon
guarded the doorway.
Also from the Ur Of the Chaldees
came tablets of 600 BE-, which led
Sir Charles Marston, British archeolo-
gist, to believe that the story Of Bel
shazzar related in the Book of Daniel
Is confirmed. He believed the sack OF
Jerusalem was proved and that Daniel
may have seen the recently found
palace of Princess Bel-Shantd- Nannar,
thought by Sir Charles a sister Of Bel
shaZZar.
Date Of Jericho Walls.
More accurate knowledge of the date
Che IsraliteS entered the Holy Land
may be based on the new estimate that
the famous walls of Jericho were con-
structed in 14G0 BIC. Prof. John Gar
stang of the University of Liverpool
made the estimate after a comparison
of ceramics and methods of construc-
ton. He followed this with discovery
of a system of fertilization in Jericho
dating to 1000 BIC. An intact pottery
jar under a building was believed by
him to have been deposited under the
foundation in the early bronze age.
The city bearing flood marks, posi-
bly, the one described in Genesis, was
found east of Babylon by the Oxford
University-F Field Museum Expedition Of
N7esopotamia. It discovered a well pre-
served palace of the SaSsanian dynasty
of Persian kings and beneath it ruins
of other buildings in layers representing
various stages of civilization.
The palace is expected to throw new
Hight on the Roman Empire, which was
constantly at war with the SaSsanian
kings.
Uncertainty About TOmbs.
The fact that an Aramaic inscription,
sJeslua Bar Jehoseph" or Jesus Son
of Joseph" was found scratched upon
o tomb in Jerusalem, is not necessarily
evidence that the tomb is that of Christ,
investigators pointed out, but It may
lend history authority to the New Test
ament of the Bible. The spot generally
accepted by Christian belief for the
tomb of Jesus is the site upon which
has been built the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre.
Further discoveries In a Jewish ceme-
terry southeast of Jerusalem have led to
the belief that it was the burial ground
for the ancient City of Beth Nethopha
which dates from the time Of King
David. ~