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ABSTRACT EXCAVATIONS at Tell Duweir in Palestine, where the Wellcome Historical Museum Expedition has been at work under Mr. J. L. Starkey, have now closed for the season. The particular
interest of this excavation lies in the possibility that the site may be the city of Lachish which was captured by Joshua after a stout resistance. So far, nothing has been found to
contradict this tentative identification, while some of the evidence from this season's work tends to confirm it. Lachish was captured by Sennacherib in 701 B.C.—this siege is
represented on bas-reliefs from Nineveh now in the British Museum—and by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. Tell Duweir, which is situated about twenty-five miles south-west of Jerusalem at a height
of 900 ft. above sea-level, dominating the Philistine country, is a mound of some forty acres in extent, tapering to eighteen acres at the summit. The stone walls identified with the city
of Rehoboam show the breaches made by Sennacherib's army and traces of the conflagration by which they were made to collapse under Nebuchadnezzar. Under the stone walls of
Rehoboam's city were found the red brick walls which are identified with the city of Joshua's day. A further piece of evidence pointing in the direction of the identification is
the find of a metal helmet crest which corresponds with the crests on the peculiarly shaped helmets of some of Sennacherib's soldiers shown on the British Museum bas-reliefs. Part of a
royal palace on the summit of the mound was uncovered, and a number of graves at the base belonging to all ages were examined and yielded a large number of skulls in excellent preservation.
Objects from Tell Duweir will be on exhibition at the Wellcome Historical Museum, Euston Road, London, N.W.I, on their early arrival in England. Access through your institution Buy or
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