Posted on 01/12/2020 12:39:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an entire Phoenician family buried together in a tomb in Achziv, an ancient population center on the Mediterranean coast near the northern city Nahariya.
In 2017, a joint team from Jerusalem's Hebrew Union College and France's Lyon University uncovered the bodies of a man, woman and small child in an approximately 2,800-year old cist-grave, a burial site surrounded by rocks and covered with stone slabs, the Haaretz daily reported Tuesday. The child was between three and five years old.
According to the archaeological team that excavated the tomb, items found buried with the family seem to indicate that they belonged to the city's upper class. While several other such graves have been uncovered in Achziv over the years, never before has an entire family group been discovered...
Achziv was an important port city during the Bronze and Iron ages and was razed and reconstructed several times. It was mentioned in the Bible as part of the territory allotted to the tribe of Asher but the Israelites were recorded as having failed to conquer the key city.
Archaeologists have been excavating the site since the period of the British Mandate, revealing burial masks, pottery and other artifacts.
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Grave sites may be a waste if real estate as far as the dead person is concerned, for they no longer have the ability to care one way or the other.
The grave site is for the living just like the funeral is for the living. It’s part of our grieving and for many much needed. I personally like the idea of visiting graves once a year to pay respect to my parents, siblings and others.
I’m going to put a curse on anyone who digs me up and steals my pottery.
And since that no longer happens, and no one has any idea who they were, and any descendants they may have are blissfully unaware of it, BS.
Well said! But that doesn't apply to people who got their fake faith from watching mummy movies.
I guess it's time you trolled an archaeology topic with that BS again, huh?
You asked the question of your BODY. I told you why they put bodies in the ground.
:)
There is a problem with space in Europe, in some countries there are time limits on burials, or at least there used to be, but I think it a here-and-there phenomenon, up to the local polity. And, it has nothing to do with archaeology.
:^) Good idea, because someone is going to make a massive fortune off that pottery!!! /s
Phoenician... modern day Lebanon. The language is related to Hebrew.
The family that decays together, stays together.
[singing] at the rot... you can rot you cannot roll and really cannot stroll once at the rot, rot rot, rot rot...
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