Posted on 09/23/2013 1:02:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
New findings from an archaeological excavation led this winter by Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv University’s Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures prove that copper mines in Israel thought to have been built by the ancient Egyptians in the 13th century BCE actually originated three centuries later, during the reign of the legendary King Solomon.
Based on the radiocarbon dating of material unearthed at a new site in Timna Valley in Israel’s Aravah Desert, the findings overturn the archaeological consensus of the last several decades. Scholarly work and materials found in the area suggest the mines were operated by the Edomites, a semi-nomadic tribal confederation that according to the Bible warred constantly with Israel.
“The mines are definitely from the period of King Solomon,” says Dr. Ben-Yosef. “They may help us understand the local society, which would have been invisible to us otherwise.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
More proof of the Bible’s truth (although I don’t need any).
Amen!!!
...copper mines in Israel thought to have been built by the ancient Egyptians in the 13th century BCE actually originated three centuries later, during the reign of the legendary King Solomon. Based on the radiocarbon dating of material unearthed at a new site in Timna Valley in Israel’s Aravah Desert...Already posted, but the summation is better here. One of *those* topics!
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Oops, will add, meanwhile, ping to you for this new one.
Scholarly work and materials found in the area suggest the mines were operated by the Edomites, a semi-nomadic tribal confederation that according to the Bible warred constantly with Israel.
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-proof-solomon-israel.html#jCp
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Stolen from the Falestinian Feofle by the evil Zionist occupiers, of course.
As it should be.
I long for the day when I won’t see the bratty term “BCE” anymore.
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