Friday, December 4, 2020

Nine Year Old Discovers 3000 Year Old Golden Bead from Temple Mount

 

This story is a little dated, but still newsworthy!  While sifting for the Temple Mount Sifting Project, a 9-year-old discovered a unique golden bead.  It was hand made with four layers of gold balls made into a cylinder looking bead.  Binyamin Milt found the golden object while screening through earth and debris from the Temple Mount, which was removed from that location over twenty years ago and then dumped in the Kedron valley nearby.  For the past sixteen years, volunteers have been sifting through the earth and the remains removed from the mount.  Although thought to be a more modern object that was simply found during the sifting process, it is now considered much older.  Upon closer examination, consideration, and comparison with other finds has led Professor Gabriel Barkay to argue that the bead is from the First Temple Period dating back 3000 years. 






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