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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
Ostracones (inscriptions in ink on fragments of pottery) from Samaria, the capital of Israel, after adding color. The inscriptions date to the first half of the 8th century BC. Photo: The Semitic Museum, Harvard University.

Dozens of inscriptions from Samaria, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, were written by only two people - most likely scribes or officials of King Jeroboam ben Yoash mentioned in the book of XNUMX Kings

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