V. OUTLINE OF PALESTINE’S ARCHÆOLOGICAL HISTORY 103 The Early Stone Age. The Late Stone Age. The Amorites. The Canaanites. Egyptian Domination. The Philistines. The Hebrews. Philistine Civilization. The Hebrew Kingdoms. The Exile and After. The Coming of Rome. Later History. VI. THE CITIES OF PALESTINE 123 Their Sites. The Walls. The Stone Work. Houses. Palaces. Foundation Sacrifices. City Gates. Water Supply. VII. ROADS AND AGRICULTURE 132 VIII. POTTERY 141 Importance of Pottery. Pre-Semitic Pottery. First Semitic Pottery to 1800 B. C. Pottery of Second Semitic Period. Third Semitic Period. Israelitish or Fourth Semitic Period. Hellenistic Period. IX. UTENSILS AND PERSONAL ORNAMENTS 149 X. MEASURES, WEIGHTS, AND MONEY 158 Measures. Weights. Inscribed Weights. Money. XI. HIGH PLACES AND TEMPLES 167 A Sanctuary of the Pre-Semitic Cave-Dwellers. A Rock-Altar at Megiddo. A Rock-Altar at Jerusalem. High Place at Tell es-Safi. High Place at Gezer. At Taanach. High Places at Petra. A Supposed Philistine Temple. At Megiddo. The Temple to Augustus at Samaria. XII. THE TOMBS OF PALESTINE 179 Burning the Dead. Cave Burials. Cistern Burial. Burial under Menhirs. Earth-Graves. Rock-Hewn Shaft Tombs. Doorway Tombs. Tombs with a Rolling-Stone. XIII. JERUSALEM 185 Situation. Gihon. Cave-Dwellers. The El-Amarna Period. Jebusite Jerusalem. The City of David. Solomon’s Jerusalem. From Solomon to Hezekiah. Hezekiah. From Hezekiah to the Exile. The Destruction of 586 B. C. The Second Temple. Nehemiah and the Walls. Late Persian and Early Greek Periods. In the Time of the Maccabees. Asmonæan Jerusalem. Herod the Great. The Pool of Bethesda. Gethsemane. Calvary. Agrippa I and the Third Wall. XIV. THE DECAPOLIS 213 Origin. Damascus. Scythopolis. Cities East of the Sea of Galilee. Gadara. Pella and Dion. Gerasa. Philadelphia. Jesus in the Decapolis. XV. ATHENS, CORINTH, AND THE CHURCHES OF ASIA 219 PART II I. AN EPIC OF THE CREATION WHICH CIRCULATED IN BABYLON AND ASSYRIA IN THE SEVENTH CENTURY B. C. 235 Text of the Epic. Comparison of the Epic with the First Chapter of Genesis. The Epic and Other Parts of the Bible. II. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CREATION FOUND AT BABYLON 255 Text of the Account. Comparison of it with Genesis 2. III. THE BABYLONIAN SABBATH 258