Reuter’s Agency has received further details of the discoveries made in Jerusalem by the British expedition which has been working there for two seasons. Archaeological experts in Jerusalem consider them the most important ever made. During the whole period of operations Mount Ophel has been the objective, this being regarded as the site of ancient Zion. The object of the excavations was to discover the burial places of David and Solomon. The first season did not yield anything very important, but last season’s work was more fruitful. The expedition established its headquarters in a native house in the village of Siloam, near the site of the excavations, and the usual plan was for the British leaders to set off every morning accompanied by their English gangers and to work until sunset. Before the tunnels had been driven very far under the hill, the expedition discovered a number of natural caves, situated at a slightly higher level than the tunnel itself, and after a quantity of debris had been removed human bodies were found lying on natural shelves of rock. These were clearly the remains of the Jebusites who had been buried before Jerusalem was taken by King David, and were probably of the date of 3000 B.C. There were indications that the bodies had merely been laid on their rock slabs without any covering except a few stones. This was probably one of the earliest forms of burial discovered. In an adjoining cavern the excavators found Jebusite pottery of the same period, which gave evidence of a very high state of civilisation, quite equal to that of the Israelites of perhaps 2000 years later.