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Welcome to the Archeology forum. Were you out doing some gardening and dug up a relic from the distant past? would you like to know more about Ancient Egypt? Did you think Memphis was actually a city in Tennessee?
Well, for the answers to those and other burning questions you've found the right digs.
Our forum rules apply here too, if you haven't read them now is the time.
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Unprecedented King Hezekiah royal seal discovered
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Interesting.
When I was in Israel last, our tour guide was a secular Jew who was very interested in archeology*. At several times during the tour, she would point out that a homeowner was digging a basement, for example, and found some coins or an artifact, so work had to stop, the antiquities people brought in to inspect, and sometimes that would turn into a historic archeological dig. The simple digging of a well, therefore, might take 10 years or more.
She pointed out that there have been several cases where the homeowner or land owner would decide they didn't want to deal with the Jewish Antiquities people, so they would conceal or fail to report the finding. And the only reason that would be uncovered is that they mentioned something to a neighbor, or tried to sell the artifact. I wonder how many times a precious dig site gets overlooked because of such reluctance of a land owner to have their life put on hold.
It's very interesting to me, though, that things are being found thousands of years later, often not even buried very deep at all.
*why doesn't a Theology website recognize the spelling of archeology?The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post*why doesn't a Theology website recognize the spelling of archeology?
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Here's a link to your article (from your cite)
and a picture of the seal (also available from your cite)
royal-seal.jpgThe first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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