(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Excavation work in the buried City of Kirjath Sepher, thirty miles west of the Dead Sea, has been started by the Archaeological Expedition led by Dr. Melvin G. Kyle, President of the Xenia Theological Seminary, St. Louis.
Progress of the expedition, which seeks ancient records in the buried city was announced by Dr. Robert Kerr, acting head of the seminary.
Buried walls have been unearthed and high points, where temples of worship probably stood, have been located at the site of the city, which flourished in 1500 before the Christian era.
The expedition is under the joint auspices of the St. Louis Seminary and the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem.
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