(Photo:: Amir Ganor/Israel Antiquities Authority)
By All Israel News Staff - March 10, 2022
An American tourist accidentally discovered an ancient and well-preserved pottery vessel from the Early Bronze Age in Qumran, which is located in the Judean Desert close to the Dead Sea.
Robbie Brown stumbled upon the ancient find in February as he and a friend decided to climb 328 feet to examine a cave known as Cave 53. The ancient jug is believed to be around 5,000 years old and could potentially be the first discovered complete jug unearthed in the area from this remote time-period.
Brown and his friend alerted Dr. Yuval Baruch from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the Israeli authority responsible for antiquities in Israel.
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