Egypt
Biblical Archaeology Review (Review by Carol A. Redmount)
Deir el-Balah: Uncovering an Egyptian Outpost in Canaan from the Time of the Exodus by Trude Dothan
Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 2008, 168 pp.
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Egypt
Book Review: Deir el-Balah
Biblical Archaeology Review (Review by Carol A. Redmount)
Deir el-Balah: Uncovering an Egyptian Outpost in Canaan from the Time of the Exodus by Trude Dothan
Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 2008, 168 pp.
The critical clue was the yellow sand. But for the grains of fine yellow sand clinging to the clay coffin lid, the source of the stunning finds—carnelian and gold jewelry, scarabs, alabaster vessels, Canaanite, Cypriot and Mycenaean pottery, anthropoid clay coffins—flooding the antiquities market in Jerusalem after the Six-Day War might never have been discovered, or discovered too late for the scientific excavation needed to illuminate the cultural and historical context of the artifacts. Without such excavation, the origin and date of the finds would forever remain guesswork, and it would be impossible to understand the true importance of the objects. It was the yellow grains of sand still on the sarcophagi reaching the antiquities market that eventually led Trude Dothan, under Israeli army escort, to the Gaza Strip site of Deir el-Balah.
Dothan’s Deir el-Balah: Uncovering an Egyptian Outpost in Canaan from the Time of the Exodus is part memoir, part excavation report and part object catalogue (of artifacts she did not herself excavate).
- Archaeologists Find Ancient Scarab In Jerusalem
Israel Hayom (Yori Yalon) Rare Egyptian artifact dates back to the 13th century B.C.E., the era when some scholars speculate the Exodus may have occurred • Scarab bears name, in Egyptian writing, of the sun god Amon-Ra, one of Egypt's most...
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Scientific American (Jeanna Bryner) With photo of an unusual painted coffin (click on the image to see the full coffin) Two decorated covers of coffins that once contained mummies have been seized by Israeli authorities, authenticated and dated to thousands...
- More Re Akkadian Tablet Found In Jerusalem
Science Daily The fragment found at the Ophel is believed to be contemporary with the some 380 tablets discovered in the 19th century at Amarna in Egypt in the archives of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), who lived in the 14th century B.C.E. The archives...
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Daily Mail With photographs. Israeli archaeologists have discovered an unusually shaped 1,400-year-old wine press that was exceptionally advanced for its time. The octagonal press measures 21ft by 54ft and was discovered in southern Israel, around 25...
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