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ARCHAEOLOGISTS will fully appreciate the announcement that one of the first official acts of the new High Commissioner of Palestine has been the establishment of a Department of Antiquities. An International Board will advise the director on technical matters. Provision is made for an inspector, for a museum, and for the custody of the historical monuments. The museum starts with more than ioo cases of antiquities collected by the Palestine Exploration Fund and other bodies before the war. On August 9 the new British School of Archaeology was formally opened at Jerusalem by Sir Herbert Samuel.
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Notes. Nature 105, 785–788 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105785a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105785a0
