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I. EGYPT 17

The Land. The Preservation of Antiquities. Egyptian
Discoveries. Decipherment. Chronology. Outline of the
History. Egyptian Discoveries which bear on the Bible.

II. BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA 40

The Land. The Preservation of Antiquities. The Discovery of
Antiquities. The Decipherment of the Inscriptions.
Chronology. Outline of the History. Discoveries which
illumine the Bible.

III. THE HITTITES 68

A Forgotten Empire. Hittite Monuments. Hittite Decipherment.
Hittite History.

IV. PALESTINE AND ITS EXPLORATION 83

The Land. Early Exploration. Early American Explorations.
Palestine Exploration Fund. The German Palestine Society.
The American School at Jerusalem. Samaria. Parker’s
Excavations at Jerusalem. Latest Excavations.

V. OUTLINE OF PALESTINE’S ARCHÆOLOGICAL HISTORY 103

The Early Stone Age. The Late Stone Age. The Amorites. The
Canaanites. Egyptian Domination. The Philistines. The
Hebrews. Philistine Civilization. The Hebrew Kingdoms. The
Exile and After. The Coming of Rome. Later History.

VI. THE CITIES OF PALESTINE 123

Their Sites. The Walls. The Stone Work. Houses. Palaces.
Foundation Sacrifices. City Gates. Water Supply.

VII. ROADS AND AGRICULTURE 132

VIII. POTTERY 141

Importance of Pottery. Pre-Semitic Pottery. First Semitic
Pottery to 1800 B. C. Pottery of Second Semitic Period.
Third Semitic Period. Israelitish or Fourth Semitic Period.
Hellenistic Period.

IX. UTENSILS AND PERSONAL ORNAMENTS 149

X. MEASURES, WEIGHTS, AND MONEY 158

Measures. Weights. Inscribed Weights. Money.

XI. HIGH PLACES AND TEMPLES 167

A Sanctuary of the Pre-Semitic Cave-Dwellers. A Rock-Altar
at Megiddo. A Rock-Altar at Jerusalem. High Place at Tell
es-Safi. High Place at Gezer. At Taanach. High Places at
Petra. A Supposed Philistine Temple. At Megiddo. The Temple
to Augustus at Samaria.

XII. THE TOMBS OF PALESTINE 179

Burning the Dead. Cave Burials. Cistern Burial. Burial under
Menhirs. Earth-Graves. Rock-Hewn Shaft Tombs. Doorway Tombs.
Tombs with a Rolling-Stone.

XIII. JERUSALEM 185

Situation. Gihon. Cave-Dwellers. The El-Amarna Period.
Jebusite Jerusalem. The City of David. Solomon’s Jerusalem.
From Solomon to Hezekiah. Hezekiah. From Hezekiah to the
Exile. The Destruction of 586 B. C. The Second Temple.
Nehemiah and the Walls. Late Persian and Early Greek
Periods. In the Time of the Maccabees. Asmonæan Jerusalem.
Herod the Great. The Pool of Bethesda. Gethsemane. Calvary.
Agrippa I and the Third Wall.

XIV. THE DECAPOLIS 213

Origin. Damascus. Scythopolis. Cities East of the Sea of
Galilee. Gadara. Pella and Dion. Gerasa. Philadelphia. Jesus
in the Decapolis.

XV. ATHENS, CORINTH, AND THE CHURCHES OF ASIA 219