modern world through excavation and research# Pre¬ 
historic Home covers a succession of periods extending 
from the dawn of history indefinitely backward toward 
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the beginning of man * s career on tho shores of the 
Mediterranean, Even a modern city like Washington, for 
HISTORIC 
£GME. example, now not two centuries old, has a record of 
events entombed beneath its pavements awaiting the 
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archeaologist of the future * Resting upon a substratum 
filled with relics of the aborigines, the subject in 
recent years of extended and important research, is a 
layer of deposits pertaining to the British colonial 
regime and a stratum superimposed upon this filled 
with traces of a century and a half of the modern 
republic. It would seen thus that the capital city 
has its unwritten record to which the historian of 
