(Photo By: Dafna Gazit/Israel Antiquities Authority)
By: Hannah Brown - December 14, 2020
An ancient ceramic oil-lamp workshop — one of the largest ever found — has been discovered in excavations by the Antiquities Authority in the “Hey” neighborhood of Ramat Beit Shemesh. Hundreds of ceramic oil lamps, two bearing symbols of the menorah, and stone lamp molds for their production were found along with terracotta figurines from about 1600-1700 years ago. In the past few months, the Antiquities Authority excavators have been joined by dozens of pre-military program students.
The large-scale archaeological excavations are being carried out by the Construction and Housing Ministry prior to the establishment of a new neighborhood.
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