Exciting discoveries: In a challenging operation by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Judean Desert, dozens of biblical fragments from the days of Bar Kochba, a 6,000-year-old girl’s skeleton and the oldest complete basket in the world were uncovered. This is the first time in about 60 years that scrolls from the Bible have been discovered in the excavations.
The remains of the scroll and other rare finds were discovered by archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority in a challenging and dramatic national project designed to eradicate the robbery of antiquities in the Judean Desert in the “Cave of Horror” in Nahal Hever, which hangs between heaven and earth. Abysses, and the road to it involves challenging surfing.
In addition to the excerpts from the scroll, the operation yielded other astonishing findings; A rare coin cache bearing Jewish symbols from the days of Bar-Kochba, a 6,000-year-old skeleton, probably of a girl, buried wrapped in cloth and modified, and a huge 10,500-year-old whole basket – known to be the oldest in the world.
Other finds left behind by the Jewish rebels who fled to the caves at the end of the Bar Kochba revolt were; A rare coin cache from the Bar Kochba revolt carries Jewish symbols such as harp and palm tree, arrowheads and spears, textiles, sandals and even lice combs.
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In the interior of the Cave of Horror and near its wall, another amazing discovery was made: the skeleton of a boy or girl from 6,000 years ago, wrapped in cloth, which had undergone a process of mummification.
Under two flat stones, a dug niche with a skeleton was exposed, and it was most likely a girl. The girl was placed in a fetal position and she was covered with a cloth that wrapped her head and upper body like a small blanket, with her feet sticking out. It was obvious that the person who buried the girl, wrapped her and pushed the edge of the cloth under her. The girl’s hands were gathered close to her body. The girl’s skeleton and the cloth that wrapped it were remarkably preserved as a result of the climatic conditions in the cave and in fact a process of natural mummification took place in which the skin, tendons and even hair were partially preserved, despite the passage of time.
The skeleton is currently being investigated under the leadership of Ronit Lupo of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Dr. Hila Mai of the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine. The oldest complete basket in the world was explored under the leadership of Dr. Naama Sukenik and Dr. Yanir Milevsky of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The skeleton and basket were dated using carbon 14 by Prof. Elizabeth Buerto from the Unit for Scientific Archeology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.