Evening star., 1932-03-27

Y Y attached to the thrilling archie
illogical researches that are un-
der way in the Holy Land, scene Of christ's
life.
are being welded by modern scientists backed
by Rockefeller money in q new crusade In which
lost facts from the Bible are being dug literally
from the earth with shovels.
In the land of Galilee, Americans are carry
ing on the Crusade of 1892, which differs from
the Crusades of the Middle Ages in that the only
prize sought Is new knowledge OF the past Oh
liberated by successive centuries. Bit by bit
buried physical evidence of things told in the
Old Testament is being rescued. The work is
barely started.
Archeologists from the Oriental Institute Of
the University of Chicago are in charge Of the
excavations and studies which actually are roll
ing back the ages in Palestine and the birth
place of Christianity in Asia Minor. At 13
points in this inexhauStible storehouse filled
with perishing and still unsalvaged evidence the
work goes on to get a fuller vision Of the rise
of man, which constitutes the greatest event in
the history Of the universe as far as it is known
10 us.
OF all these diggings the one Of the greatest
Significance to biblical scholars Is that at Me-
giddo the Armageddon told Of in the Old Testa-
ment of the Bible. There a mighty mound is
being peeled off layer by layer. century by CEN
tury, laying bare to this hectic age the life of
4 AEGIDDO Is the site of 26 cities from $500
wi BIC to 10 AID Strategic in the history
of all times it was fortress guarding the cara
van and military pass through Mount Carmel,
connecting the plains of Armageddon and
Sharon in the ancient Assyrian-Egyptian high
way, where the Twentieth Century Limited
(BC) of camels and donkeys passed.
Here, during the World War, Lord Allenby
threw his cavalry through the pass to win from
the Turks the great battle Of the Plains Of
Armageddon in 1918 AID, just as the young
Pharaoh Thutmes III made his deadly thrust
against the allied Asatics by unexpectedly
breaking through the same pass-a almost as many
years BIC.
"I shall never forget with what interest we
students read descriptions of the ancient splen-
dor of Megiddo" said Dr. James Henry
Breasted, head of the Oriental Institute and di-
rector of the most magnificent excavations ever
undertaken by man.
Ever since student days it has always been
q dream of mine to excavate this city In
later years the reason for its power has become
more evident and added a more substantial
basis to the romantic desire of student dreams.
I realize that such visions were to
small extent the outgrowth Of boyhood study
of the Old Testament with its many pictur-
esque references to Megiddo."
LIT. Breasted told now the interest OF J0nn
D. Rockefeller jr, in the work was aroused
and how in 1925 he indicated his willingness to
finance the digging of the mound Never has
excavation in such a manner or on such a
large scale been attempted and already the dis
covery of Solomons well and Solomons stables
built according to Testament specifications
have brought new light and proof of fact 10
biblical lore.
NR. CLARENCE FISHER led the first ex-
- pedition of the American archeologists'
crusade against the mound of Megiddo and