Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1919 — Ancient Jaffa. [ARTICLE]

Ancient Jaffa.

Jaffa is one of the < bies|-towns in the world; some call it th.- oldest town. The first historical d.'ctnnent relating to Jaffa is found in Egypt, in an inscription on the temple of Karnak. It is in the list of towns which Tliothtnes the Third of Egypt conquered in the land of Canaan 16 centuries before the Christian ent. Jaffa is already mentioned several tlnd*s in the fifteenth century B. C., in the Tel Ainarua letters, and Jabitereh. an Egyptian governor, ruled Jaffa and Caza in the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Then, as today, Jaffa was famous for its gardens. The place is uot mentioned in the Pentateuch. The name is first found in Joshua 19:26, as bordering on the territory of Dan.