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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.
Archaeology of Lebanon includes thousands of years of history ranging from Lower Palaeolithic, Phoenician, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and Crusades periods.. Overview of Baalbek in the late 19th century Archaeological site in Beirut Greek inscription on one of the tombs found in the Roman-Byzantine necropolis, Tyre Trihedral Neolithic axe or pick from Joub Jannine II, Lebanon.
Bethlehem of Galilee (Hebrew: בֵּית לֶחֶם הַגְּלִילִית, Beit Lehem HaGlilit; lit. "the Galilean Bethlehem") or Bethlehem-in-the-Galilee [2] is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near Kiryat Tivon , around 10 kilometres north-west of Nazareth and 30 kilometres east of Haifa , it falls under the jurisdiction ...
The University of Haifa recently announced that 160 ancient coins depicting Alexander Jannaeus were found during an excavation in the Jordan Valley in December.
The chronological periods are abbreviated in this way: Pa – Paleolithic; EP – Epipalaeolithic; Ne – Neolithic; Ch – Chalcolithic; EB – Early Bronze Age; IB – Intermediate Bronze Age (also called "Early Bronze IV" and "Middle Bronze I")
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they believe to be the remains of an Ancient Greek courtesan. 2,300-year-old tomb found in Israel may contain remains of Greek courtesan Skip to main ...
A rare collection of ancient coins was discovered last week by Israeli researchers, who called the find an "archaeological Hanukkah miracle." The coins are more than 2,000 years old and believed ...