[STD]

The report in Al-Ahram boasts that the find backs up the Koran’s claim that coins were used in Egypt during Joseph’s period. Joseph, son of the Patriarch Jacob, died around 1450 B.C.E., according to Jewish sources.

Excerpts from the Al-Ahram report, as translated by Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI):

"In an unprecedented find, a group of Egyptian researchers and archeologists has discovered a cache of coins from the time of the Pharaohs. Its importance lies in the fact that it provides decisive scientific evidence disproving the claim by some historians that the ancient Egyptians were unfamiliar with coins and conducted their trade through barter.

"The researchers discovered the coins when they sifted through thousands of small archeological artifacts stored in [the vaults of] the Museum of Egypt. [Initially] they took them for charms, but a thorough examination revealed that the coins bore the year in which they were minted and their value, or effigies of the pharaohs [who ruled] at the time of their minting. Some of the coins are from the time when Joseph lived in Egypt, and bear his name and portrait. http://www.IsraelNN.com

[mdmathis6]

The old testament speaks of Joseph...”returning the “money” back to his brothers’ sacks of grain. Obviously some type of coinage was being used at that time.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Forgeries.

Coins were an invention of the Lydians c.700 BC, over 700 years later than Joseph, and their use spread from there. Had coins been an earlier invention, their earlier use would have been ubiquitous.

(I have a fair acquaintance with numismatics.)

[ChocChipCookie]

Did anyone see those ruins in Egypt that seemed to be huge granaries? I wondered if they were dated to the time of Joseph but never heard anything more about them.

[Mr. Dough]

This is a beautiful thing.

And right on the heels of Iran's AWACs plane crashing!

OK, it's pretty loosely related...

[SunkenCiv]

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