Israeli archaeologists find ancient fortification (3700-year-old Canaanite 26-foot tall stone wall)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/2/09 | Jen Thomas - ap

[NormsRevenge]

JERUSALEM – Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday.

The 26-foot-high wall is believed to have been part of a protected passage built by ancient Canaanites from a hilltop fortress to a nearby spring that was the city's only water source and vulnerable to marauders.

The discovery marks the first time archaeologists have found such massive construction from before the time of Herod, the ruler behind numerous monumental projects in the city 2,000 years ago, and shows that Jerusalem of the Middle Bronze Age had a powerful population capable of complex building projects, said Ronny Reich, director of the excavation and an archaeology professor at the University of Haifa.

The wall dates to the 17th century B.C., when Jerusalem was a small, fortified enclave controlled by the Canaanites, one of the peoples the Bible says lived in the Holy Land before the Hebrew conquest. The kingdom thought to have been ruled from Jerusalem by the biblical King David is usually dated to at least seven centuries later.

[Bender2]

Re: Israeli archaeologists find ancient fortification (3700-year-old Canaanite 26-foot tall stone wall)

Okay! If they didn't dig down 26 feet from the top of the wall to the very bottom... how the heck did they figure it was 25 feet high?

[NormsRevenge]

It’s 79 feet long too. :-)

[Reagan is King]

The City of David digs are funded by Elad, a Jewish settler organization that also buys Palestinian homes and brings Jewish families into the neighborhood.

Great idea!

[NormsRevenge]

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[BuckeyeTexan]

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[Bender2]

Re: It’s 79 feet long too...

Gadzooks! That's a lot of digging! I'd better rest... for awhile.

[Quix]

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[Two Kids' Dad]

But... but... but... didn’t Mohammad build that wall with his own hands? The Muzzies will try to use the discovery to prove that the land rightfully belongs to them. The canaanites were Allah’s buddies or some such nonsense.

[ex-snook]

"The wall dates to the 17th century B.C., when Jerusalem was a small, fortified enclave controlled by the Canaanites, one of the peoples the Bible says lived in the Holy Land before the Hebrew conquest. The kingdom thought to have been ruled from Jerusalem by the biblical King David is usually dated to at least seven centuries later."

So it really belongs to the Canaanities. Any still around? Has Bibi read this yet?

[Paladin2]

The Canaanites provided a quit claim deed.

[Paladin2]

Looks like a dry wall.

[onedoug]

The canaanites were Allah’s buddies or some such nonsense.

Though fitting for cannibals, and various forms of human sacrifice.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

They brought Bob Vila in - ain’t nuthin’ ‘bout walls he don’t know! :-)

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[AnalogReigns]

Though fitting for cannibals, and various forms of human sacrifice.

Yeah, one of the interesting things about the bible, is that the commands about morality--sexual and otherwise--are directly responsive to the way the Canaanites routinely lived.

So all you have to do is think about what Judeo/Christian morality is (no adultery, no incest, no homosexuality, no bestiality, no idols, no human sacrifices, etc.) and the opposite is exactly the way the Canaanites were...

Baal and Asherah, for example the two most popular Canaanite gods, were full brother and sister...AND husband and wife...

An archeologist I knew had a dig in a Canaanite burial ground...for infants given in human sacrifices... Full of pots with tiny charred bones within. Was used for 400 years and had over 100,000 burials there.

Definitely a disgusting culture. No one should wonder why God commanded the Hebrews to wipe them out.

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[ApplegateRanch]

Looks like a dry wall.

Of course it is. It doesn't rain there much this time of year. ;-)

[ApplegateRanch]

Baal and Asherah, for example the two most popular Canaanite gods, were full brother and sister...AND husband and wife...

Too bad their "parents" didn't 'pass them through the fire' as infants....