Princeton Expeditions to Syria (1899, 1904-1905, 1909)

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below the ruins just mentioned - are the walls of several plain structures and some good rock cut tombs - a little further on a moulding was found with a fragmentary Greek insc (W.K.P. blank) and the caps, cols, lintels and other fragments of a large church.

il Mghâra Crossing the shallow valley we have on our right the small modern village of Mgahâra and, adjoining it on our left, the ruins called ir-Ruwês. These are quite extensive but greatly dilapidated. There are buildings in good style and of considerable extent, with arched interiors, and a number in the older megalithic style. There are none of these that were worth photographing or measuring as so much was lacking to make them of importance.

Following the path through the ruins we turn to the left and in two or three minutes come to the entrance of a great underground structure. The entrance which was reached by a broad flight of rock hewn steps is almost completely filled up but from the interior we can see that there were ten quadrangular piers rock cut.