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To: Brumar89 who wrote (62245)	11/8/2014 11:41:08 PM
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Moses just waves his hand & they cast a bronze snake rod, just like that! In their dreams with the rest of the fables... If one thing the early Hebrews are famous for, its their lack of any advanced tech skills, they were no metalurgist or builders till they get shown all this later finally, which is why most of them stay in Babylon where there is exciting new skills to be learned. Pointing to the Assyrians or Cannanites Egyptians Babylonians is a totally different story.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (62245)

11/8/2014 11:47:31 PM

From: 2MAR$

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Macedonian ...Aigai, the royal metropolis of Macedonians 4th century BC

Lots of vine, flower & leaf filligree, neat piece , now show us just one thing from Jerusalem matching it , same timeframe...just one.

And this is only in the 4th century and you cannot produce anything, sorry charlie, have to stop reading those fairy tales.

They had no skills, they had wild imaginations though, talk is cheap, anyone can resort to make believe & they did.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (62245)	11/9/2014 12:04:28 AM
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By contrast they find 700CE jewelry on the temple mount and its 'breathatking?' Its 'amazing'? Then they mention the 1rst temple but what has 7th century jewelry have to do with 900BC fables, are all you people nutz? :0) It has nothing at all to do with that period, this is just too rdiculous for words. The Ophel Treasure: A “once-in-a-lifetime discovery” at the foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount biblicalarchaeology.org The gold medallion, the prize find of the "Ophel treasure." Photo: Ouria Tadmor. Dr. Eilat Mazar’s excavation at the Ophel in Jerusalem is one of the most high-profile investigations in the field of Biblical archaeology. The area between the City of David and the Temple Mount has been known as the Ophel (meaning “a high place to climb to”) since the First Temple period. In the Bible, King Jotham “did much building on the wall of the Ophel” (11 Chronicles 27:3) in the mid-8th century B.C.E., and the site’s history stretches back well before this constructon. In her book Discovering the Solomonic Wall in Jerusalem, Mazar recounts the storied excavation history of the site, which sits at the heart of ancient Jerusalem. Ophel investigators include Captain Charles Warren, Dame Kathleen Kenyon and (Eilat Mazar’s grandfather) Benjamin Mazar, yet none of these esteemed predecessors uncovered a cache as striking as the one found by Eilat Mazar during the 2013 field season. The Ophel excavation team recently came across an archaeologist’s dream: a gold cache. A gold medallion stands out as the prize find: the medallion (pictured above) features a menorah, shofar (ram’s horn) and a Torah scroll, three sacred and iconic Jewish emblems. Alongside the elegantly etched medallion, the team uncovered 36 gold coins and gold and silver jewelry. In a post issued by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mazar says, “We have been making significant finds from the First Temple Period in this area, a much earlier time in Jerusalem’s history, so discovering a golden seven-branched Menorah from the seventh century C.E. at the foot of the Temple Mount was a complete surprise

To: Brumar89 who wrote (62245)	11/9/2014 12:14:08 AM
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Rare ancient 3000yr old jewelry found at Megiddo, objects were either owned by Egyptians living in the area or inspired by the Egyptian style of the period ynetnews.com Stash of 3,000-year-old jewelry unearthed by archaeologists near site of biblical Armageddon in northern Israel. Co-director of dig says 'jewelry offers glimpse into Canaanite high society' Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare trove of 3,000-year- old jewelry, including a ring and earrings, hidden in a ceramic jug near the ancient city of Megiddo, where the New Testament predicts the final battle of Armageddon. Archaeologists who unearthed the jug during excavations at the site in 2010 left it in a laboratory while they waited for a molecular analysis of what was inside. When they were finally able to clean it, pieces of gold jewelry – a ring, earrings, and beads – dating to around 1,100 BC poured out. Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University, who co-directed the dig, said that the find offers a rare glimpse into ancient Canaanite high society. He said the fact that the jewelry was found inside the jug suggested that the owner hid them there. Finkelstein said the jewelry likely belonged to a Canaanite family. "We can guess that it was a rich family, probably belonging to the ruling elite," he said. Trove of 3,000-year-old jewelry unearthed (Photo: AP) Tel Aviv University called the trove "among the most valuable ever found from the Biblical period," adding that one piece in particular, a gold earring decorated with molded ibexes, or wild goats, is "without parallel." It said in a statement this week that the objects were either owned by Egyptians living in the area or inspired by the Egyptian style of the period. Aren Maeir, an archaeologist at Bar Ilan University, said that because the raw materials used are not from the area, the find "tells us about international relations ... and about technical traditions used at the time." Megiddo was an important trade center in ancient times. According to the New Testament, Megiddo will be the site of the final apocalyptic battle between good and evil.