308 The Fundamentals. c is ie t n h tl a y t ww i e de ha e v x e pe n r o ie t n l c i e ve t d o t lo e n st g it e s n m ou e g r h it , s o in r h al a l v p e ar n t o ic t u h la a r d s. suffi war G d e b ze e r ca w m a e s a an h i e m a p p o o rt f an ru t i p n l s a , ce an in d J it o s sh lo u c a a 's tio ti n me w , a b s ut u i n t k a n f o te w r n until 1870, when M. Clermont-Ganneau discovered the site in Tel Jezer, and, on excavating it, found three inscriptions, which on interpretation read "Boundary of Gezer." por A ta m nt on a g nd th d e iffi pla cu ce lt s c t o o nq ca u p e t r u e r d e by wa J s os L hu a a ch o is n h e o ( f Jo th s e h. m 1 o 0 st :3 i 1 m ) . This has but recently been identified in Tel e l -Hesy, about eighteen miles northeast of Gaza. Extensive excavations, first in 1890 by Dr. Flinders Petrie, and finally by Dr. Bliss, found t a io s n u s cc o e f ss w io h n ich of ex r t u e i n n d s, ed on b e ac b k el t o o w ab t o h u e t e 17 th 0 e 0 r, B t . h C e ., lo so w m er e t f i o m u e nd be a fore the period of conquest, showing at that time a walled city of great strength. In the debris somewhat higher than r th es is po th n e d r in e g w t a o s t f h o e un T d el a e t l a -A bl m et a w rn i a th ta c b u l n e e ts if , o w rm hic i h nsc a r r i e pt k i n o o n w s n co t r o have been sent to Egypt from this region about 1400 B. C. At s a au la lt t e e d r p a e n r d io t d a , ke in n b th y e t t h i e me As o s f yr S ia e n nn a a r c m h y er , ib a , nd La th ch e is a h cc w ou a n s t a o s f the siege forms one of the most conspicuous scenes on the walls of Sennacherib's palace in Nineveh. These sculptures are now in the British Museum. spo A nd m en o c n e g f t r h o e m pl w ac h e ic s h m l e e n tt t e io rs ne w d er in e t s h e e nt T to el E el g -A yp m t a a r b n o a ut co 1 r 4 r 0 e 0 B. C., a-re Gebal, Beirut, Tyre, Acebo (Acre), Razor, Joppha, : t A io s n hk i e s lo a n ls , o M m a a k d k e ad o a f h R , L ab a b c a h h is , h S , a G re e p ze ta r, , A Je s r h u t s a a r l o e t m h, ; G w a h z i a le , G m a e t n h , Bethshemesh, all of which are familiar names, showing that the Palestine of Joshua is the Palestine known to Egypt in the preceding century. Two hundred years before this (about 1600 B. C.) also, Thothmes III. conquered Palestine, and gives in an inscription the names of more than fifty towns which can be confidently identified with those in the Book of Joshua,
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