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SAUL'S ARMOUR.
Another Ancient Temple Unearthed.
SUN'S ECLIPSE.
SCIENTISTS GATHER IN
SUMATRA
A collection of costly tole- cameras.
The Temple of Ashtaroth, be- lieved to contain the armor of Saul, has been uncovered by Alan scopes, astronomical Rowe, field director of the Uni-spectroscopes and other ex- versity of Pennsylvania expodi-ponsivo apparatus is now on the tion to Beiaan, in Palestine, the first leg of a journey half way ancient Bethshah of the Bible, around the world. It was ship- according to a cable received at ped recently from Now York, the University Museum recently, bound for Singapore, writes an
Mr. Rowe's cable briefly reports American correspondent... the finding of the famous. Biblical At Singapore, it will be placed temple 35 feet below the surface on another ship and taken to of the earth after four years of, Sumatra, one of the larger islands unrelenting work on the part of of the Malay, archipelago. The the Pounsylvania expedition. Be-oquator outs through the middle fore the temple itself was reached of Sumatra. There are six active the excavators uncovered an im-volcanoes on Sumatra. Earth- age of the Goddess Ashtarothquakes occur occasionally. with a shrine and the objects per- Waterspouts and severe thun- taining to her cult, such as bronze derstorms are frequent. serpents and doves.
You might wonder, therefore, Spurred on by this discovery, why expensive astronomical up- they continued digging and re- paratus is being sent to Sumatra. cently uncovered a section of the It is because a total oclipse of the temple. When the soil was sun will be visible there cleared away the temple was Jan. 14, 1926. found to be in a good state of
It is only occasionally that preservation It is an oblong astronomers are lucky enough to structure with three columns on have a total eclipse visible aver each side. Within the cornar easily accessible territory like stone was found, the cable says a the eclipse of last January. casket or foundation deposit con- which was visible in a truck ex | caining, among other things, tending, from Minnesota to Now
ingots of electrum, a mixture of York city. gold and silver. A completo re-
Usually astronomers have to port of the discovery is expected carry their instruments to far off places and run the risk of having: months of preparations ruined by cloud or sudden rain at the moment of the total eclipse.
at the museum by mail.
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The significance of Mr. Rowo's discovery is illustrated by the last chapter of First Samuel, whore, after a vivid description of the battle of Mount Gilbon and the more forcibly the lengths to Probably nothing illustrates death of Saul, the Bible contains which scientists will go in their this statement. And they put search for knowledge than does his (Saul's) armor in the house of their study of total eclipses. The Ashtaroth and they fastened his period of totality is less than two body to the walls of Bothshan.” minutos.
Saul's death and the burial of Yet because certain features of his armor in the temple by the the sun can be studied only dur Philistines was part of the colo-ing those two minutes, astrono- bration of their victory over mors will spend months in pre- Israel..
paration for them.
No less than eight periods of)
The Sumatra axpedition is un- occupation and building had been der the direction of Dr. John A. penetrated and uncovered in the Miller, the director of the Sproul four provious seasons of digging. Astronomical Observatory. The party began on the top of the Dr. Miller and the other mem- Acropolis or Tell and the layers bors of the expedition will all be were removed one by one. In in Sumatra on Dec. 1. They will the operation the excavators had spend from Dec. 1 to the day of gone down to a depth of thirty-the eclipse, sotting up their ap- five feet on the Arcopolis, at paratus and gotting ready for the which lovel the discovery two minutes of totality. was made. The workers will con-
Thoir apparatus includes an tinue digging in an effort to find astronomical camera built of the actual armor worn by Saul, structural iron with a focal Officials at the University Mu-length of 15 feet. This will be seum say it is probable that it mounted on concrete piers. will be found that the house of
The instrument uses twin lens Ashtarot, as it is called in the of six and three-quarter inches Bible, was destroyed by King aporture. It is a particularly David, for the captured Bethshan powerful instrument and will be when ho had become King in the, used to place of Saul.
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