From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] Ancient Canaanite City, Jewish town found
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:34:06 -0500
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.
[b-hebrew] Ancient Canaanite City, Jewish town found,
Shoshanna Walker, 08/28/2004