Excerpt from Modern Research as Illustrating the Bible Excavation in Canaan: principal places excavated, 40, 41; Tell el-besy, the mound of many cities 41, 42 contains the remains of eleven cities, dating from 1700 to 400 B. C. Resting one upon another, 41 - 5 in all probability the site of the ancient Lachish, 45, 46 Gezer, discovery of its site by clermont-ganneau, 46; its strategic importance, 47 notices of Gezer in the Old Testament, 45 - 6; seven strata of remains at Gezer, 49; two lowest strata, belonging to the Neolithic age, 49 inhabitants at this time cave-dwellers, character of their civilization, 51 - 3; third and fourth strata, dating from about 2000 to 1200 B. C. 53; indications of an Egyptian settlement in the south-east of Palestine between 2000 and 1800 B. C. 53 - 4; the city walls of Gezer, 54 - 6; figures of the Phoenician goddess Ashtoreth (astarte) found at Gezer in the fourth stratum, 56-7; her worship in other parts of Canaan and elsewhere, 57 - 9. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.