Interesting Finds
Below are our 7 articles in the 'interesting finds' category:
Fake archaeological artefacts have flooded the marketplace. They can be so convincing that they are unknowingly displayed in museums, the most respected collectors buy them, and they are often sold ...
In the spring of 1947, Bedouin shepherds from the Ta'amira tribe, who were searching for their lost goats in the desolate ravines near the shore of the Dead Sea, stumbled upon a cave containing ...
In 1985 a severe drought in Israel caused countrywide water shortages. Lake Galilee, in the north, is the country's primary source of water. Towns and cities, industries and farmers placed extreme ...
The assumption that the famous biblical Mount Sinai is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula was the decision of Emperor Constantine’s mother almost 2,000 years after the actual event of the Exodus. ...
Metrology is the official name given to the exacting science of standardising weights and measurements. Such a system needs to be legally established and enforced by penalties for breaches of the ...
Clothing and other textiles are of great significance to the survival of human beings. Even in the height of the Roman period textiles enjoyed a key role in society. Everybody, from emperors to ...
Coins are found at nearly every archaeology excavation site throughout the world. Naturally in very ancient archaeology sites there are no coins discovered as the introduction of coinage, as a ...
