Science: Diggers

Recent discoveries in archeology: Palestine. Sir Charles Marston is spending much of his bicycle fortune for archeological research because he believes the world is a little better off every time his diggers confirm some scrap of Biblical history. Marston-financed is the expedition of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum of London, now probing the site of ancient Lachish, southwest of Jerusalem. Last month Expedition Leader J. L. Starkey & staff turned up twelve fragments of pottery bearing the name, written in ink, of many a notable figure of the decadent period from Solomon's first...

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