(Jerusalem Post) Uri Bollag - Two antiquity smugglers, residents of the Israeli Arab village of Daburiyya, were caught over the weekend by the Antiquities Authority's Anti-Robbery Unit while demolishing the remains of Horbat Deborah in the Galilee with a bulldozer. The site is identified with the biblical heroine Deborah and the Jewish village Dabra that existed during the Roman period. The robbers shattered underground caves and uprooted masonry stones that were part of the remains of the 2,000-year-old village. In the debris, a fragment of a basalt millstone used to grind flour and potsherds from the Hellenistic period were also found.
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