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Rita E. Freed, Ramesses the Great (Memphis, TN: The City of Memphis, TN, 1987), plates no. 22, 18.

Sir Leonard Woolley and P. R. S. Moorey, Ur ‘of the Chaldees’, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press/London: Hebert Press, 1982).

The Shwe Dagon Pagoda in Rangoon was built in the 15th century and rebuilt in 1841 to its present height of 326 feet (100 meters). See Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., vol. 26, p. 521.

The gilded copper roof was placed on the Golden Temple at Amritsar in 1802 by King Ranjit Shigh. See Chambers Encyclopaedia (Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1967) under “Amritsar.”

John Gray, I and II Kings (London: SCM Press, 1964) p. 160.

For example, Joseph Robinson, The First Book of Kings, Cambridge Bible (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1972), p. 79.

Both Kollek and Hecht sit on the Archaeological Council appointed by the Minister of Education. This council issues excavation permits and makes policy recommendations—including matters concerning the antiquities trade and antiquities plunder. The fact that both these men are collectors with a financial interest in the antiquities trade represents a clear conflict of interest that long ago should have resulted in the resignations of Kollek and Hecht from the Archaeological Council.

Rafi Frankel’s survey is cited in Finkelstein, Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement, p. 97.