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of modernization)—inscriptions, cave-tombs, mosaics, and pieces of sculp-
ture ; its mosques and minarets, themselves old, stand probably on the site of
older churches and synagogues; the Citadel, now in ruins, still dominates
the town, while below the fish-pools are a quiet memorial to the beliefs of
two millennia ago.

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