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The Ketef Hinnom scrolls, also described as Ketef Hinnom amulets, are the oldest surviving texts currently known from the Hebrew Bible, dated to c. 600 BCE. [2] The text, written in the Paleo-Hebrew script (not the Babylonian square letters of the modern Hebrew alphabet, more familiar to most modern readers), is from the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible, and has been described as "one of ...
Ketef Hinnom The area of Ketef Hinnom (just east of St Andrew's church) shown in a 1940s Survey of Palestine map Ketef Hinnom ( Hebrew : כתף הינום , romanized : ketef hinom , lit. 'Shoulder of Hinnom ') [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is an archaeological site discovered in the 1970s southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem .
Amulet Egy. lang. equiv Discovered by Usage-or-Origin City/ cemetery Notes Heart Amulet on necklace TT55, tomb of Ramose (TT55), (in Theban Tomb 55) Necklace with Heart-shaped amulet Central Figure, under 2-opposite-facing Water Libation vessels streaming Water-streams. Usekh collar, double-stranded necklace w/ large amulet laying upon the collar.
Archaeologists uncovered a nearly 1,800-year-old amulet that offers new insight into the early spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire.
YMCA SCUBA Program (also known as Y-SCUBA) was an underwater diving training program operated by YMCA of the USA from 1959 to 2008. It was the first nationally organised underwater diving instruction program offered in the United States of America .
Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot where tradition says Jesus was born.
The Maon Synagogue is a 6th-century Jewish synagogue and archaeological site, located in the western Negev desert, near Kibbutz Nirim and Kibbutz Nir Oz, in Israel. The former synagogue is noted for its "magnificent" mosaic floor.
The mummy was found in 1916 at a cemetery used between approximately 332 and 30 BCE in Nag el-Hassay, southern Egypt. It had been stored unexamined in the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.