Posted on 04/17/2020 8:34:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...They have also found evidence of a fierce fire, burnt mud bricks, white ash, burnt wood and numerous destroyed ceramic vessels - which coincides with the biblical account of the city being raided by the Amalekites...
Scholars have been divided over the location of Ziklag, with as many as 12 potential sites put forward as contenders. But Garfinkel and co-director Dr Kyle Keimer, Senior Lecturer in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel at Macquarie University, say the assembled evidence gives Khirbet el-Rai a strong claim to be the lost biblical city...
The site has yielded a wealth of artefacts including rich finds of Canaanite pottery, vessels used to store oil and wine, a stash of flint 'blanks' used for sickle blades, inscriptions, oil lamps, a portable shrine and even a large bronze spearhead...
The team has uncovered a series of superimposed monumental buildings as well as multiple domestic buildings. The earliest of the monumental buildings was destroyed, preserving a room full of burnt bones and cultic objects, some of which find their origins in Cyprus. The architecture and small finds indicate that a sophisticated society with international connections was in existence at that time (the Iron Age I), rather than modest scattered settlements as scholars previously thought.
(Excerpt) Read more at lighthouse.mq.edu.au ...
Macquarie University students in the Ancient Israel Program dug at the site of Khirbet el-Rai, Israel (identified as biblical Ziklag) together with Hebrew University. They uncovered monumental architecture and a wealth of finds. Here we demonstrate excavation techniques including an on-site chemistry lab.
The Ancient Israel Program 2019{ Published on May 1, 2019
Ziklag was given to David by Achish of Gath (I Samuel 27.6) and belongs to the kings of Judah to this day. So if they find Ziklag, all they have to do is locate a king of Judah to give it back to him.
“Rare figurines uncovered at lost biblical city”
shoot, i guess that means the value of my rare Hummel figurine collection will go down the toilet ...
I've got a half dozen Hummels that I bought for my mom when I was stationed in Germany...bought them at the factory. Nice place to visit.
Assuming the photo shows walls that were once above ground, I don’t quite understand the process that buries structures like that, even over several thousand years. I can understand places like Mexico City where the Spanish built upon old Aztec structures but what causes soil to pile up like that? Or do people intentionally bury old places after they’re abandoned?
It’s two things. First, the only cities we CAN find are those that were buried. The others have long worn away, or their materials used for some other building. Survivorship bias.
The other thing is that cities and the people that inhabit them produce waste. Bringing stuff in to eat, wear, use, burn, etc is crucial. Hauling it back out when you’re done, less so. So stuff piles up. Pottery bowl breaks? Throw it in the back yard. Shirt is worn out, throw it in the back yard. And of course, there’s the human waste, too, obviously. Anyway, all that stuff piles up, and eventually the walls are half covered. You then either build anew on top of the rubble , or you move the town and it stays buried, or half buried.
Rabbi Yosef Dayan from P’sagot will be happy to hear this...
Good call, babble-on! Also,it depends on the site. Erosion, windborne debris, earthworm activity, the crumbling of the ancient structures, reuse by building over the older habitations, and (my personal favorite) using the abandoned town site (or parts thereof) as a refuse pile all can contribute to the burial.
Given the length of time that humans have lived in that area, there are a million stories the naked cities buried under the surface of every hill
Good call, babble-on! Also,it depends on the site. Erosion, windborne debris, earthworm activity, the crumbling of the ancient structures, reuse by building over the older habitations, and (my personal favorite) using the abandoned town site (or parts thereof) as a refuse pile all can contribute to the burial.
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Cantil, California
Was once thriving, even farming. Till the water got sucked out.
Now the uninhabited buildings are half deep in blown sand.
A few souls still inhabit the area, but have to fight the sand invasion.
Town founded about 1908. Give it a little more time to get all buried.
One of the Renaissance-era sculptors decided to dig a basment under his house. A few feet below the floor he ran into a flat stone slab.
It turned out to be the top of a capital, the kind used at the tops of columns.
In trying to dig it out, he found the column was still there.
The rest of the ruined, buried building was also still there.
Yup, and some of those mounds are not hills, they got there via thousands of years of layers of building.
On a rest stop during an Italy tour, the resort owner told of finding a piece of marble slab.
He covered it back up.
Else the authorities would have shut down his whole operation.
Anecdotes like that illustrate how gubmint often accomplishes the reverse of its purported intentions.
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