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During Building Work on a New Neighborhood in the Southern City of Rahat, Archaeologists Uncover Sixth-century Church With Pictures of Ships That May Have Brought Pilgrims to the Holy Land
The excavation efforts also led to the discovery of a coin from 67/68 CE, during the first Jewish revolt against the Roman occupying forces.
The Stretch of Ancient Jerusalem's Aqueduct Was Discovered During an Archeological Dig in East Jerusalem's Givat Hamatos, Ahead of the Construction of a New Neighborhood in the Controversial Area
The aqueduct system was used to transport water from natural springs near Bethlehem, some 21 kilometers, to the Jerusalem 'Upper City' and the Temple Mount - Click the link for more details.
DEBKAfile The first Biblical scroll fragments to be discovered in 60 years are among the awesome relics unearthed in Israeli Antiquities Authority excavations in the most remote caves of the forbidding Judean Desert. More than a score of 2,000-year-old Greek translations of the books of Zechariah and Nachum were discovered with only the name of God written in Hebrew, as well as a 10,500-year-old woven basket and the 6,000year-old, mummified skeleton of a six-year-old child. The expedition to uncover the secrets of the ancient desert was launched in 2017. After all efforts to stop the rampant ...