Category: History - Ancient
To all who are interested in the ancient history of mankind, the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs is a fact of the highest importance. As early as the fourth dynasty, and probably as early as the first, the Egyptians possessed the art of writing; but for thousands of y...
It will be a useful preliminary to our study of Palestine if we give here a short list of the expeditions sent out by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
2. iii. 8), a Mesopotamian district which lay opposite to the Hittitecity of Carchemish. Amenôphis III. married a wife from the royal house of Mitanni; and the offspring of this marriage--Amenôphis IV.--in his turn married Tadukhepa, daughter of...
4. viii. 11), and on that account he brought up the daughter of Pharaohout of the City of David (which is Zion, 1 Kings viii. 1), unto the house that he had built for her. The ark never went back to Shiloh after Eli sent it away. The tabernacle, ho...
10. CHAPTER V.MESOPOTAMIA--“the Land between the Rivers”--is a tract of country nearly 700 miles long, and from 20 to 250 miles broad, enclosed between the Euphrates and the Tigris, and exten...
5. CHAPTER III.Ever since the days of David Jerusalem has been the chief city of Palestine, and although so small a city now that it would go conveniently into Hyde Park--and perhaps never muc...
7. vv. 6-8, the Gate of Ephraim is passed by without mention, although,Verse 25. The mention now of another re-entering angle might perplex us, only that the same verse speaks of a “tower standing out from the king’s upper house,” and this may easi...
1. CHAPTER I.To all who are interested in the ancient history of mankind, the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs is a fact of the highest importance. As early as the fourth dynasty, an...
6. i. 7, 3, where he states that Pompey found it a difficult business tofill it up. This valley commences to the north of the city wall, passes down west of the Church of St Anne, and runs into the Kedron, past the Sanctuary wall, at a distance of 1...
8. CHAPTER IV.In New Testament times Palestine was a Roman province, and its divisions were no longer tribal. East of Jordan were the districts of Perea Batanæa, Trachonitis, Auranitis, Panea...
9. xviii. 35, as well as in the other Evangelists, that the route takenThe Jericho road was the scene of the parable of the Good Samaritan. “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.” The actual descent would be about 3000 feet; and every...