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Israeli Researchers Identify Biblical Kingdom of Edom
(Jerusalem Post) Aaron Reich - Research has uncovered the story of the wealthy biblical kingdom of Edom, in parts of Israel and Jordan in the Arava Desert, that existed during the 12th-11th centuries BCE. "We were able to identify and characterize the emergence of the biblical kingdom of Edom," said Tel Aviv University Prof. Erez Ben-Yosef, who led the study with Prof. Tom Levy of the University of California, San Diego. "Our results prove it happened earlier than previously thought and in accordance with the biblical description." According to their study, published on Wednesday by the scientific journal PLOS ONE, the kingdom's wealth appears to have been built on a "hi-tech network" of copper, the most valuable resource in the region at the time. Copper was used in ancient times to craft weapons and tools, and "copper smelting was essentially the hi-tech of ancient times," said Ben-Yosef.