As the museum grew in the 1930s, its director, Francis Henry Taylor, supported excavations in ancient Antioch, now modern ...

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No place was worse hit than Antakya, the site of ancient Antioch, where 90 percent of the buildings were lost and more than 20,000 people died in the town and the surrounding Hatay province.