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June 9, 2021
A woman stands next to a giant capital at the at the Roman basilica in Tel Ashkelon National Park. Photo by Yoli Shwartz courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed the largest ancient Roman basilica in the nation, a 2,000-year-old building dating to the reign of the Biblical figure Herod the Great, who may have built it.
“The writings of the historian Josephus mention Herod’s construction in the city of Ashkelon and list fountains, a bathhouse, and colonnaded halls,” Rachel Bar-Natan, Saar Ganor, and Federico Kobrin, excavation directors working with the Israel Antiquities Authority, said in a statement.
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JERUSALEM. KAZINFORM - Israeli archaeologists have discovered an intact chicken s egg of roughly 1,000 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said Wednesday, Xinhua reports. Related news
The egg was found in an excavation site in the central city of Yavne, in a cesspit dating from the Islamic period.
The egg s rare preservation is evidently due to the conditions in which it lay for centuries, nestled in the cesspit containing soft human waste that preserved it, the archaeologists said.
However, the egg had a small crack in the bottom so most of the contents had leaked out and only some of the yolk remained, which was preserved for future DNA analysis.
Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists in Yavne find an unbroken chicken’s egg while excavating an ancient cesspit dating from the Islamic period roughly 1,000 years ago
While excavating an ancient site in Yavne that archeologists have dated to about 1,000 years ago, they were astonished to find an unbroken chicken’s egg. “Eggshell fragments are known from earlier periods, for example in the City of David and at Caesarea and Apollonia, but due to the eggs’ fragile shells,