February 25, 1977 • Page Image 56
…56 Friday, February 25, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS New Discoveries in the Ancient Kingdom of Eblct,' Are Illuminating the Middle East's 'Dark Ages' JERUSALEM — The site 50 kilometers south of Aleppo, Syria, was known as Tel-Mardikh when Dr. Paolo Matthiae of the University of Rome began digging there in 1964. Four years later he un- covered the site's ancient name when he found a statue identified by in- scription as that of a king of Ebl...…

















































