In the era before the Egyptians perfected embalming!?
"Grampa, come back! We were just kidding!"
Posted on 05/11/2026 8:04:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Nahal Mishmar Hoard is an archaeological discovery of more than 400 copper objects from the Chalcolithic period, found in the Judean Desert in 1961 by Pessah Bar-Adon, an archaeologist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in a cave at Nahal Mishmar, west of the Dead Sea. It was found by chance during an expedition searching for more of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.
The findings from Nahal Mishmar represent one of the most important hoards of ancient metal objects ever discovered and provide scholars with valuable insight into Copper Age metallurgy and society in the Levant. The objects, mostly made of copper but some of ivory and stone, date from the 5th millennium BCE, between 4500 and 3500 BC.
The hoard was found in a cave that had been used as a burial chamber, wrapped in linen cloths, suggesting it had been deliberately hidden. Archaeologists such as David Ussishkin have suggested that it may have been the cultic furnishings of the Chalcolithic temple of Ein Gedi, located about 12 kilometers away, which is from the same period and shows signs of having been quickly abandoned and destroyed.
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I think the thumbtack is a person...it looks like they’re all over the side pieces that rise up.
Cute.
Says copper...not heavy at all...
Pretty amazing.
😊
/not giving up my day job
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Wikipedia has some other pics, as does the article posted up top.
Whew....glad to hear it...../s.
Right, so I pointed that out as a bracketed disclaimer, since we’re not supposed to change the headline. I do wonder where the copper came from.
When he sings “Fire” now, his dentures tend to fall out.
The black and white first discovery photo shows a lot items of very nice craftmanship. I wonder if the smaller “crowns” are actually arm bands or bracelets.
Wow! That is a lot cooler than I expected it to be.
Great design and far better shape than I imagined.
They didn’t have bulletin boards yet, so the invention of the thumbtack was useless, and they’d gone to the trouble of making them, and had to use them for *something*.
At that time paper hadn’t been invented yet to tack onto a cork board, which hadn’t been invented yet either, so the thumbtack was revered as a mystical object.
😁
My first thought too.
Not useless. They could tack animal skins around the inside of the hut
In the era before the Egyptians perfected embalming!?
"Grampa, come back! We were just kidding!"
Weird.
Ghassulian culture???
any more information on that?
No! Those are antenna elements for communication with the Annunaki!
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