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4,000-Year-Old Necropolis with more than 100 Tombs Discovered Near Bethlehem
Ancient Origins | March 8, 2016 | M.R. Reese
Posted on 03/07/2016 4:26:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3406369/posts

Bronze-Age Cemetery Discovered Near Bethlehem
[snip] The cemetery fell out of use around 650 B.C. “It seems that the town suffered a crisis,” Nigro wrote in Vicino Oriente. [/snip]
Archaeology | Friday, March 04, 2016 | editors / LiveScience
Posted on 03/06/2016 6:20:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3405993/posts?page=3#3

4 posted on 07/10/2016 10:17:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)

I wonder what happened to the Philistines — were they moved by the Assyrians or did they just assimilate with the Judean populace?

8 posted on 07/11/2016 12:57:41 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)