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A cave of concealment during the Bar Kochva rebellion that was discovered in Hukok near the Sea of ​​Galilee. Photo: Emil Eljam, Israel Antiquities Authority.

An impressive underground hiding system from the days of the Bar Kochba revolt has been uncovered near the Sea of ​​Galilee

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A ring discovered in a cave in Khokuk that was used by Bar Kochba soldiers to hide from the Romans. Photo: Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority
Excavations 2023 at Tel Shekmona. Photo by Prof. Golan Shloy.

The Scarlet Factory in Shekmona shows the flourishing of the Kingdom of Israel in the middle of the 8th-9th century BCE

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Tel Shekmona was the largest crimson factory in the area during the Iron Age, under the control of the Kingdom of Israel and the one that apparently supplied the prestigious crimson color to the Temple in the neighboring Kingdom of Judah
Laboratory photograph of the bone and the engravings on it. Credit to researcher Marion Parvo

Research: A bone with six similar engravings is ancient evidence of human symbolism

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The bone from the Ramla eagle is the oldest known representation of an abstract symbol in the Levant. Dr. Zeidner from the Institute of Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the leaders of the research: "It can be said that a bone with a symbolic engraving was found among the oldest in the world, certainly in the Levant."
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