The Archaeology of Palestine Author:W.F.Albright Summarizes the results of the most important or the most interesting archaeological discoveries from the 1920's to the 1940's in Palestine. The book also contains chapters which explain how the archaeologist carries on his excavations, how the subject developed from a treasure hunt into a science, how civilization unfolded from the Stone Age to... more » the height of the Roman Empire. There is a chapter on the races and languages, scripts and literatures of ancient Palestine, as well as a chapter on the every-day life of the people. Two chapters summarize the bearing of these researches on the Old and the New Testaments.« less