The New York Times · 31 October 1920
CP-1920-011
Walls of Ancient Tiberias
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WALLS. OF ANCIENT TIBERIAS. •BICAL scholars everywhere will • be greatly interested in a chance find made in Jerusalem in August of this year by some Jewish workmen who were. bullding a wall for the Pales- tine Government.
In their excavations preparatory to the building they came across ancient. walls and columns; and one of their overseers, an Intelligent! fellow, carried the information at once' to Jerusalem. The location of the spot was such that he suspected that the ruins of some important Old Testament edifice had been found.
Work was ordered stopped and the Director of the Department of Antiqui- ties went to the place with members of the Jewish Exploration Society. Pre- liminary digging was done and a thor- ough study of the ground, the investi- gation convincing the men that they had found the site of the ancient Ti-. berias, a place: which has such great assoclation both with C
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"Walls of Ancient Tiberias," The New York Times, 31 October 1920. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1920-011. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1920-011
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