by A toddler discovered an old treasure at the beginning of this month during a family outing in South Israel, said officials.
During the visit to the Archaeological site Tel Azekah, about 50 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, the 3-year-old Ziv Ziv Nitzan found a Scaraba amulet, which was believed to have belonged to the Canaanite communities, which are due to 3,800 years, according to Israel Antiquities Authority, a National Conservation Agency. Tel Azekah is a place with biblical meaning and is a hill that has arisen from the rubble of settlements that have been built together over time.
The discovery occurred in early March, said the child’s sister, Omer Nitzan, the antiquities authority.
“We walked along the way and then turned down – and from all stones around her she picked up this specific stone,” said Omer Nitzan, according to the agency. “When she rubbed it and removed the sand from it, we saw that something was different.” The family then brought up the find of the antique authority.
Daphna Ben-Tor, a curator of Egyptian archeology in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, whose expertise contains old amulets and seals, found that the little treasure dates into the middle Bronze Age. The eastern Mediterranean. The Canaanites were an early Semitic population who lived in this area and appeared in biblical texts.
A toddler discovered an old treasure during a family outing in southern Israel. / Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority/ Facebook
Scaraba-shaped amulets such as the Nitzan met are small, decorated objects that, according to Israel, are supposed to imitate antiquities authority. The agency notes that these tiny treasures can be attributed to ancient Egypt, where the dung beetle was regarded as “holy” and as a “symbol of new life” or even by God.
“During this time, skarables were used as a seal and as amulets,” said Ben goal in a explanation. “They were found in graves, in public buildings and in private houses. Sometimes they wear symbols and messages that reflect religious beliefs or status.”
Nitzan discovered the amulet in a section of Tel Azekah, in which historical artifacts were previously found, said archaeologists. Other identified artifacts were city walls and agricultural structures from the Juda Königreich, which existed in front of the common era during the Iron Age last millennium.
“We have been digging out here for almost 15 years, and the excavation findings show that during the middle bronze and late bronze times here in Tel Azekah one of the most important cities in the Judean lowlands,” said OD Lipchits, professor at Tel Aviv University, which led an archaeological excavation. “The Skarschin found by Ziv, which is discovered here on a long list of Egyptian and Canaanic finds, which confirms the close relationships and cultural influences between Kanaan and Egypt during this time.”
The amulet will be exhibited at a special exhibition by the Israel Antiquities Authority for Passahfest in mid -April.
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