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To: Greg or e who wrote (62286)	11/9/2014 5:57:50 PM
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biblicalarchaeology.org The Ophel TreasureA “once-in-a-lifetime discovery” at the foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Noah Wiener • 09/09/2013 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.” Our free eBook Ten Top Biblical Archaeology Discoveries brings together the exciting worlds of archaeology and the Bible! Learn the fascinating insights gained from artifacts and ruins, like the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem, where the Gospel of John says Jesus miraculously restored the sight of the blind man, and the Tel Dan inscription—the first historical evidence of King David outside the Bible. The so-called Ophel treasure includes thirty-six gold coins, as well as jewelry and other precious goods. The Byzantine coins date from the fourth to the early seventh centuries C.E. Photo: Ouria Tadmor. Discovered in a Byzantine structure originally constructed in the sixth century C.E., Mazar believes that the hoard was hidden during the Persian conquest of Jerusalem in 614, a short-lived but violent conquest. * The cache is only the third collection of gold coins ever discovered in Jerusalem. The so-called Ophel treasure, which was uncovered during the fifth day of the 2013 excavations, includes gold earrings, a silver ingot, dozens of coins and the iconic menorah medallion, which is described in the Hebrew University report as “most likely an ornament for a Torah scroll. In that case it is the earliest Torah scroll ornament found in an archaeological excavation to date. It was buried … along with a smaller gold medallion, two pendants, a gold coil and a silver clasp, all of which are believed to be Torah scroll ornamentations.” Eilat Mazar The “Ophel treasure” is far from Mazar’s first iconic discovery. Her excavations and interpretations of the City of David’s Large Stone Structure and Stepped Stone Structure, which she deemed a palatial complex from the time of King David, ** have reshaped Jerusalem archaeology debates (and tourism). Her excavations have yielded diverse finds, including a recently announced inscription uncovered in 2012, containing what may be Jerusalem’s earliest alphabetic text. The newly uncovered cache, with its emblematic iconography, will surely bring public attention to an important later period of Jerusalem history at the Ophel. Read more from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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The menorah piece is only from 700yrs AD totally different world, far down the road 1800yrs later. One would think the Megiddo jewelry 1100bc cache would be international, front page news, because those pieces are just that spectacular, especially the gold goat or ibis ring. It is one of a kind, extremely rare, beyond comprehension type of rare, out of this world rare.--------> for that northern Judah area<---------

When you combine all this with the Amarna Letters you find most all of Judah is an Egyptian substate from 1500 down to 1000BC, Moses might have fled Egypt, he ran right back into them when he got home.<bg
en.wikipedia.org

They have over 58 letters from this king Rib-Hadda, of Byblos, sent to the Egyptian king Akhenaton who we know now started the world's first monotheism. Thats almost 60 letters just from this one chief alone from Byblos. There are other rulers that we have letters from which include Tushratta of Mittani, Lib'ayu of Shechem, Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem, Byblos is way up in Lebannon.

Brumar is flapping his gums again when he thinks the Amarna Letters prove some Biblical history is correct, they only prove without any doubt that the world's first monotheism starts in Egypt, or at least tries to start.

Byblos is way up by that river in the north, that chief exchanged over 60 letters with Egypt around 1390-1350bc, we have the tablets records, whats the matter with the 'biblical' people? Asleep?

Byblos Location within Lebanon