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["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

The excavators are having a guided tour of both sites for the interested
public on Sept. 6 at 4 pm. I plan to be there - you're all invited!

Yigal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 3:34 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Ancient Canaanite City, Jewish town found


> FROM:  ICEJ News, August 26
>
>
> ARCHEOLOGISTS UNCOVER ANCIENT CANAANITE CITY, JEWISH TOWN - Israeli
> archeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old Canaanite city and a
> 2,000-year-old Jewish village from the Second Temple period alongside
> each other in the Modi'in area near the present-day Israeli
> green-line town of Shoham. The Jewish town existed from about 100 BCE
> to 135 CE, until the Bar Kochba revolt, archeologist Dr. David Amit
> told The Jerusalem Post. Excavations have uncovered a 2,000-year-old
> street, ancient Jewish coins, wine presses, and a mikve (Jewish
> ritual bath).
>
>
>
> FROM:  Arutz 7, August 26
>
> DIGGING UP HISTORY
> The Antiquities Authority revealed yesterday two extraordinary
> findings in the Tel Bareket archaeological dig near Modiin: A large
> Jewish village from the Second Temple period, and a Canaanite city
> from the period between Noah and Abraham.
>
> "This is one of the most unique sites ever dug in Israel,"
> Antiquities Authority sources told Maariv.  Some ten archaeologists
> and 250 workers took part in the unprecedented dig, which took place
> over a large area that was divided into two parts.  In one area,
> diggers discovered housing units, mikvaot [ritual baths], a water
> canal and reservoir system, yards, streets, agricultural findings,
> and coins from the Hasmonean period and later.  In the second area, a
> large and well-fortified city from close to 5,000 years ago was
> found.
>
>
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