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  • 8-year-old Israeli boy stumbles across ancient relic

    12/01/2015 2:55:39 AM PST · by beaversmom · 48 replies
    Israel 21c ^ | December 1, 2015
    Essential Question: How should one be rewarded for doing the right thing? The worldwide press is calling him “the young Indiana Jones," but eight-year-old Itai Halperin of the central Israeli town of Pardesiya* was not intentionally digging for relics when he came across the ancient head of a fertility goddess figurine. He was simply out for a November nature walk with his family near Tel Beit Shemesh*. Because Itai did the right thing and turned over his find to archaeologist Alexander Glick of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), he and his class will now have the privilege of participating in...