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  • Arsonists torch storerooms with 4,000-year-old artifacts [koranimals]

    06/17/2015 10:01:45 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | June 16, 2015 | Ilan ben Zion
    Arsonists in northern Israel torched two storerooms filled with artifacts found at a nearby salvage excavation at Tel Kishon on Monday. Some of the antiquities were over 4,000 years old. The blaze inflicted irreparable damage to the antiquities, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement Tuesday morning. The authority lodged a report with the police, who opened an investigation into the incident. The excavations at Tel Kishon were being conducted to prevent damage to artifacts during roadwork on Route 65, near Mount Tabor in the Galilee. Among the antiquities found, and damaged in the blaze, were Bronze Age pottery...