Name of Biblical Judge mentioned in Book of Judges found inscribed on 3,100-year-old jug found in Israel

[Weatherman2020]

Archaeologists have uncovered a small jug with a rare five-letter inscription, linking the 3,100-year-old ceramic artifact to a biblical judge mentioned in the Book of Judges.

Israel was basically ignored by archeologists until after WW2 when Jews began their migration there. So you've got +6,000 years of history thats just been waiting. I've got pottery pieces from ghe time of David that were just laying out in the open. People find artifacts all of the time. About every month a discovery is made.

Name of biblical judge found inscribed on 3,100-year-old jug found in Israel - UPI.com

Archaeologists have uncovered a small jug with a rare five-letter inscription, linking the 3,100-year-old ceramic artifact to a biblical judge mentioned in the Book of Judges.

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[JGalt]

That's pretty cool. I like old stuff.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

That's cool.

 

[Blackrook]

The only old thing we have in Las Vegas is the Mormon Fort, and it's an eyesore.

 

[Weatherman2020]

The only old thing we have in Las Vegas is the Mormon Fort, and it's an eyesore.

Yeah, that’s the West. Old is a 1776 mission. Now here in Virginia I’m surrounded by homes built before the Revolution. In Israel you sit on a wall built by people 6,000 years ago.

 

[Blackrook]

In a ghost town in Nevada, the guide showed the tourists a bottle that was 100 years old. She said, "Isn't that something how OLD it is?"

One of the tourists said: "That is something, when I get back to Syria I will tell them about it."