(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Confirmation of certain biblical narratives concerning the time of King Saul and the wars between the Israelites and the Philistines was brought to light by some of the facts unearthed by the Palestine Expedition of the museum of the University of Pennsylvania, the final report of the director of the museum, Dr. George Byron Gordon, published here, states:
The Expedition has identified the two Philistine temples mentioned in I Chronicles, X, 10, in one of which the armour of Saul was placed and in the other his head. Much other new ###chaeological information has also been found.The Expedition has discovered altogether four Canaanite temples, two being made during the time of Rameses II, one under the reign of his predecessor, Seti I, and one under the Tell el-Amarna era. The evidence shows that the southern temple of Rameses II was dedicated to the warrior god Resheph, and the northern one to the warrior goddess Antit
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