Professor John Garstang and his expedition are excavating at Jericho in a quest for a lost city. It is the fifth season that Professor Garstang, the first director of antiquities under the British administration in Palestine, has been at work on the Jericho site.
Interviewed here on his arrival from London, the scientist said this year he hopes to unearth the most ancient city on the site of Jericho.
Work is going forward on a new area where there is no superimposed debris. The expedition expects to reach a depth of more than twenty-five feet, at which point Professor Garstang said he hopes discoveries will be encountered which will throw light on the earliest phase of the Bronze Age.
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