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  • Archaeologists discover Phoenician family tomb in ancient city of Achziv

    01/12/2020 12:39:19 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 31 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | December 25, 2019 | TOI Staff
    Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an entire Phoenician family buried together in a tomb in Achziv, an ancient population center on the Mediterranean coast near the northern city Nahariya. In 2017, a joint team from Jerusalem's Hebrew Union College and France's Lyon University uncovered the bodies of a man, woman and small child in an approximately 2,800-year old cist-grave, a burial site surrounded by rocks and covered with stone slabs, the Haaretz daily reported Tuesday. The child was between three and five years old. According to the archaeological team that excavated the tomb, items found buried with the family...