Since 2017, a team of archaeologists from the IAA’s Prevention of Archaeological Theft unit has been systematically surveying the Judean Desert to reach valuable finds before the antiquity looters.
Dr. Robert Kool: “The rare find contributes information concerning the way trade was carried out."
The weapons cache was most likely hidden by Jewish rebels some 1,900 years ago after being seized from Roman forces.
The court said it dismissed disputed aspects of the students’ narratives since there was no way to reconcile contradictions, they had clearly influenced each other, and because of inconsistencies.
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