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Israel Discovers 2,000-Year-Old Jewish Village in Greater Jerusalem


(Times of Israel) Amanda Borschel-Dan - New evidence of 2,000-year-old Jewish ties to the greater Jerusalem region was recently uncovered during a salvage excavation in the city's Sharafat neighborhood. In what is today a mixed Muslim and Christian Arab neighborhood in the Jerusalem municipality, archaeologists have unearthed a large Hasmonean-era agricultural village. Archaeologists discovered an impressive burial estate, an olive press and many jar fragments, ritual baths, a water cistern, rock quarries, and a dovecote, all dating to circa 140 BCE-37 BCE.
2019-03-29 00:00:00
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