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Apr. 26, 2021 12:38 PM
A 1,600-year-old mosaic carpet found right next to the Byzantine-era industrial zone of Yavneh is to be placed on public display at the city’s cultural center, the Israel Antiquities Authority and city announced on Monday.
In Israel, infrastructure works are generally preceded by archaeological exploration of the site in case there’s anything worth preserving, or at least knowing about. Many a site is explored and then covered back over for the development to proceed.
Yavneh has existed since the Middle Bronze Age, if not before, and has been excavated for decades. Nowadays, the IAA is extensively excavating southeast of Tell Yavneh ahead of new neighborhood development.
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William J. Tighe
For all Christians today who observe a “liturgical year,” the high point of that year is the annual commemoration of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection at the end of Holy Week. Good Friday recalls to the faithful the Lord’s suffering and death, and in most Christian traditions is a day of ascetical practices, particularly fasting. Holy Saturday commemorates his entombment and descent to hell, and thus is also a day of asceticism. Easter Sunday, by contrast, is the joyous celebration of his resurrection, and of
the resurrection of mankind in him. Despite these discrete “episodes,” however, most Christian churches