Dr. Nelson Glueck, Biblical archaeologist and president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, who has just returned from new archaeological explorations of Israel’s Negev region announced today that he had made important discoveries.
Two Judaean fortresses found overlooking the Valley of Ruheiba confirm the findings of Lawrence of Arabia identifying Ruheiba with the Biblical site of Rehovoth (Genesis 26;22-23), Dr. Glueck said at a press conference this afternoon. The fortresses form an important part of a body of evidence showing that Judaean kingdom caravans followed the famous Way of Shur to. and through Sinai to Egypt.
At Qetsiot, site of a modern Israeli settlement, Dr. Glueck discovered immense evidence of water engineering by the Nabataeans which, he said, if utilized and duplicated by Israel today could be of material assistance in transforming the desert.
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