(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Dr. George Grant MacCurdy. of the Peabody Museum. Yale University. has been designated by Secretary Charles D. Walcott as the official representative of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. to attend the Archaeological Congress in Palestine and Syria. Dr. MacCurdy is an honorary collaborator of the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. and one of the foremost anthropologists and archeologists of America.
The Archeological Congress in Palestine and Syria will be under the parronage of the High Commissioners of Great Britain in Palestine and of France in Syria. In both of these countries, since the World War brought them under the jurisdiction of western nations. rich new archeological discoveries are being made and a great theatre of early civilization has been made more accessible for scientific study.
The sessions of the Congress will be held successively in the three cities of Beirut. Damascus. and Jerusalem. The chief excavations and historical sites of each region will be visited. including Byblos. Sidon. Baelbec. Palmyra. Tiberias. Beisan. Megiddo. Jerusalem. Jerash. and possibly Petra. The Congress will open at Beirut on April 2 and close at Jerusalem on April 23.
Three main subjects will be considered by the archeologists of the world who attend the Congress. (1) Prehistory and Ethnology. (2) Historic Antiquity, and (3) Middle Ages and Modern Times.
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