Gazan farmers found an ancient statue of cananite when archaeologists discovered an intact Samaritan lamp.

Gazan farmers found an ancient statue of cananite when archaeologists discovered an intact Samaritan lamp.

Gazan farmers found an ancient statue of cananite when archaeologists discovered an intact Samaritan lamp.

Several recent archaeological discoveries have been discovered in Levant dating back to Bible times, such as ancient icon statues and oil lamps … 04.05.2022, Sputnik International

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The Ministry of Tourism and Ancient Gaza announced last week that farmers in southern Gaza discovered a 4,500-year-old statue of a pre-Jewish goddess. The statue is 9 inches high and made of limestone, with Anatto’s head wearing a crown. the snake’s. It is speculated that she was equated with Antu in the ancient Akkad Pantheon and Athena in Greece. The region of Gaza is recorded in the history since 3,300 BC, when the Egyptian fortress was built just south of what is now the city of Gaza. It is called Tel Asakan. The fort served as a major trading hub with the Semitic-speaking Semitic-speaking Canaanites, similar to Hebrew. The role of the fort later moved to Gaza and became a legend as a port city in the big city at the western end of the Silk Road. The Torah refers to the Canaanites among the extinct people of the Israelites, but scholars believe that their culture is very similar and that the Canaanite culture continued into the Hellenistic Greek era. increase. Samaritan oil kerosene Separately, archaeologists on the west bank of the Jordan found an almost intact clay kerosene lamp on Mount Gerizim, a mountain south of Nables, which the Samaritans believe. The lamp was discovered to be the most sacred place on earth. The lamp was found while protected workers were cleaning around a stone bath similar to the Jewish Mikveh used by the ancient Samaritans. Currently, there are less than 1,000 Samaritans, but they were once on the west coast, northern Israel, and southern Lebanon. The Semitic-speaking people, who are very closely associated with the ancient Israelites, split from them when the leaders of the Kingdom of Judah were deported to Babylon in the 6th century BC. By the time they returned under the patronage of Persia decades later, the Samaritan and Jewish religions were so separated that they could not be reconciled. Among those differences is the belief that Mount Jerizim is not the temple mount in Jerusalem, but the place where God wanted to build his temple. The ruins where the lamp was found date back to the Persian-Hellenistic period and include the town surrounding the temple. It included several homes and an olive oil press, which was essential to its economic prosperity.

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