Stories by Harold J. Shepstone

The Ancient Walls of the City of David and Solomon Are Being Restored

How England, at Considerable Cost and Peril, is Obtaining the Freedom of Thousands of Slaves from the Tribes in the Naga Hills

How the Problem of an Efficient Water-supply for the Holy City Is Being Solved by the Establishment of Modern Water Works on the Spot Associated with the 23rd Psalm

All Over the Bible Lands, from Dan to Beersheba, the Archeologist Is Busy Turning Over Ancient Mounds and Revealing City Sites

The Medieval Tragedy of White Colonists in the Far North

A spectacular engineering feat is the construction of the great Sennar Dam, on the Blue Nile, in the Sudan. Here the engineer has been wrestling with the Nile floods and by herculean efforts is erecting an immense barrage, two miles in length, across the river, in order to hold up water for the irrigation of a million acres of parched land, where cotton is to be grown by means of hundreds of miles of canals.

Work of Preservation That May Solve the Origin of Britain's Most Mysterious Ruin

Spitsbergen's Vast Mineral Wealth and the Question of its Future Government

A Little Known but Important Industry

In many Respects the most Famous Ruins of Bible Lands

Curiosities of the Bat World

A New Factor in the Turkish-Balkan Situation

Discovery of the Palace of Ahab Herod's Buildings Unearthed and Ancient Jewish Inscriptions Found

Ancient Measuring Vessels Found on Reputed Site of the House of Caiaphas

Historic Buildings, Rich in Legend-Lore

Some Remarkable Restorations of Extinct Animals

Exploring in the Sinai Peninsula

A Modern Innovation in an Ancient Land

An All but Impregnable Ancient Town