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Israeli archaeologists dig up 2,000-year-old coins and biblical scroll
Discovery from the time of Bar Kokhba includes arrowheads and rare coins bearing Jewish symbols including a harp and a date palm.
A treasure trove of Roman artefact, left behind by Jewish rebels who fled after an uprising 2,000 years ago, have been dug up by Israeli archaeologists.
The Israel Antiquities Authority unveiled ‘thrilling’ finds at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, excavated in the Judean Desert.
Items unearthed include dozens of fragments of a biblical scroll, arrowheads and rare coins bearing Jewish symbols including a harp and a date palm.
The discoveries were left behind by Jewish rebels who fled to the caves of the Judean Desert at the end of the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132 – 136 CE).
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