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EAST TO DAMASCUS

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The tell of Makor at site 17072584 in western Galilee as
seen by archaeologists on Sunday morning, May 3, 1964,
while standing in the olive grove to the south. From the
visual appearance of the tell nothing could be deduced as
to its genesis, construction or history, except that the uni-
formly smooth surface of the slope would suggest that at
some time around the year 1700 B.c.E. it could have been
paved with heavy stone blocks by Hyksos invaders moving
against Egypt from the north; and the slight rise toward the
eastern side of the tell might indicate that there had once,
been a building of some size standing at that poinL






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Turkish empire in his employ, one way or another, but the land
was not yet his. By applying constant pressure and bribes whose
number he had lost count of, Shmuel had advanced his case
to a point where Emir Tewfik in Damascus was willing to sell the
useless acres for the not exorbitant sum of nine hundred and
eighty English pounds, but the baksheesh required to reach this
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