http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...115717.htm
The Megiddo project has previously identified 4 destruction layers at Megiddo within a 350 year period...from the middle of the 12th century BC to the 8th. Oddly, it was the very middle of the 12th century when the Philistines landed on the Canaanite coast and Egyptian control of the region finally waned.
Quote:Researchers from Tel Aviv University have recently discovered a collection of gold and silver jewelry, dated from around 1100 B.C., hidden in a vessel at the archaeological site of Tel Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. One piece -- a gold earring decorated with molded ibexes, or wild goats -- is "without parallel," they believe.
According to Prof. Israel Finkelstein of TAU's Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, the vessel was found in 2010, but remained uncleaned while awaiting a molecular analysis of its content. When they were finally able to wash out the dirt, pieces of jewelry, including a ring, earrings, and beads, flooded from the vessel. Prof. Finkelstein is the co-director of the excavation of Tel Megiddo along with Professor Emeritus David Ussishkin of Tel Aviv University and Associate Director Prof. Eric Cline of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
The Megiddo project has previously identified 4 destruction layers at Megiddo within a 350 year period...from the middle of the 12th century BC to the 8th. Oddly, it was the very middle of the 12th century when the Philistines landed on the Canaanite coast and Egyptian control of the region finally waned.
