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4,000-Year-Old Necropolis with more than 100 Tombs Discovered Near Bethlehem
Ancient Origins ^ | March 8, 2016 | M.R. Reese

Posted on 03/07/2016 4:26:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

By studying and excavating ancient burial grounds, we can learn about how final respects were paid when people died during ancient times. The artifacts located alongside these remains also provide insight into what items people valued and what they believed about the afterlife. A 2013 discovery of an ancient burial ground near Bethlehem is providing new information about one civilization that lived approximately 4000 years ago.

In 2013, efforts began to build an industrial park near Bethlehem, leading to a discovery that may prove to offer fresh insights about the ancient world. The area where the industrial park was to be built held an ancient necropolis containing over 100 tombs. Upon this discovery, researchers came to the area to see what they could learn about the burial ground, and the civilization that one occupied the area. According to Lorenzo Nigro of Sapienza University of Rome, negotiations commenced, and the construction company ultimately agreed to cease activities in the preserved portion of the burial ground....

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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; archaeology; bethlehem; catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; history; holyland; israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; minoan; minoans; mycenaean; mycenaeans; necropolis

1 posted on 03/07/2016 4:26:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Today you would find selfie sticks and smart phones and starbucks reward cards


2 posted on 03/07/2016 4:28:49 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3405993/posts


3 posted on 03/07/2016 4:30:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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4 posted on 03/07/2016 4:30:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: al baby
Today you would find selfie sticks and smart phones and starbucks reward cards

If I find myself in a Starbucks in the afterlife I will know I didn’t make it to heaven.

5 posted on 03/07/2016 4:59:36 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did they find any dinosaur and human bones in the burial grounds?


6 posted on 03/07/2016 6:39:58 PM PST by dburt2 (Bethlahem)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks


7 posted on 03/07/2016 6:42:56 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: dburt2

DINOSAUR AND HUMAN COEXISTANCE AND FOOTPRINTS
http://www.dinosaurc14ages.com/footprints.htm


8 posted on 03/07/2016 6:47:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: Pontiac

As your demon barista thrusts a cup at you marked “Black lives matter, you racist honky!” you’ll go “Uh oh!”

The coffee will still taste like burned s*** but that’s the case here on Earth.

;^)


9 posted on 03/07/2016 6:51:32 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who lived there 4000 years ago? Generic Canaanites or a specific group? The Anakim seem to be further south, in the Hebron area.


10 posted on 03/07/2016 6:52:17 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: elcid1970
As your demon barista thrusts a cup at you marked “Black lives matter, you racist honky!” you’ll go “Uh oh!”

You have been spying on my nightmares!

Beelzebub is that you?

11 posted on 03/07/2016 8:23:33 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
DINOSAUR AND HUMAN COEXISTANCE AND FOOTPRINTS

If they find coprolites from a tyrannosaurus rex that contains human teeth you may have some proof.

12 posted on 03/07/2016 8:28:37 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I lived in Bethlehem many years ago and have been in strange underground caverns that were obviously man-made that the locals took me to. Lots of undiscovered history there IMHO.


13 posted on 03/08/2016 3:43:27 AM PST by tjd1454
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To: Pontiac

We have found each other, my son! Now tell me where I can get turntables that play backwards, so my Satanic messages can be spread by all my disciples and corrupt the youth of America!

Frank Zappa is right here with me, his acid rock albums still echo my evil words when spun the right way!

;^)


14 posted on 03/08/2016 4:11:35 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Duchess47; Pontiac; elcid1970

:’)


15 posted on 03/08/2016 6:35:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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One of *those* topics, but only adding, not pinging.


16 posted on 03/08/2016 6:52:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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17 posted on 03/08/2016 11:43:26 PM PST by GOP Poet
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