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[Lit]

JERUSALEM -- Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of rare, 35-century-old religious artifacts once used in pagan rituals, Israeli officials said Monday.

The items were found during an excavation ordered by the Israel Antiquities Authority along the route of a new gas line in the country's north. Excavating a rock hollow, archeologists found more than 100 intact artifacts, including a vessel for burning incense and the sculpted face of a woman that was part of a cup used in a pagan religious ceremony.

“This is my 42nd excavation in 15 years and the first time I've found more than shards,” said Edwin van den Brink, the archaeologist who directed the excavation. He said he expected to find artifacts, but not the amount or quality they uncovered.

Some of the small vessels were used to carry precious liquids from Cyprus and Mycenae, Greece, 3,500 years ago. These vessels were replicated by people in those areas, illustrating a link between the regions, van den Brink said.

Full Story here:
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/life/discov ... earths.htm

[Gasman]

The China Post - Founded in 1952 by Mr. and Mrs. Y.P. Huang, The China Post is Taiwan's leading English-language daily newspaper

What a strange place to find it reported. I will keep an eye out for them appearing for sale by auction on eBay in the coming weeks lol!

[Gasman]

Another earlier report here (copyright Associated Press):

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gdQhVlK9zDvOfGPHAETGNckH3sfAD9G6LGM00

With more photos.

[CrookedRiverGuy]

The China Post - Founded in 1952 by Mr. and Mrs. Y.P. Huang, The China Post is Taiwan's leading English-language daily newspaper

What a strange place to find it reported. I will keep an eye out for them appearing for sale by auction on eBay in the coming weeks lol!

Not really, the archaeologists should have cared to have a closer look at the artifacts:

[Oracle]

Some of the small vessels were used to carry precious liquids from Cyprus and Mycenae, Greece, 3,500 years ago. These vessels were replicated by people in those areas, illustrating a link between the regions, van den Brink said.

So far, nothing has been found which contradicts the trading routes and ancestral roots of the people in these regions. It's a bit like the Theory of Evolution; every piece of bone which is unearthed just backs it up. We're just waiting for that one anachronistic fossil which would turn the theory on its head, but it just isn't happening. It's solid; and so is the wealth of evidence for the interrelationship between the Mycenaeans and the native Cypriots. All Greeks, now!

[Paphitis]

JERUSALEM -- Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of rare, 35-century-old religious artifacts once used in pagan rituals, Israeli officials said Monday.

The items were found during an excavation ordered by the Israel Antiquities Authority along the route of a new gas line in the country's north. Excavating a rock hollow, archeologists found more than 100 intact artifacts, including a vessel for burning incense and the sculpted face of a woman that was part of a cup used in a pagan religious ceremony.

“This is my 42nd excavation in 15 years and the first time I've found more than shards,” said Edwin van den Brink, the archaeologist who directed the excavation. He said he expected to find artifacts, but not the amount or quality they uncovered.

Some of the small vessels were used to carry precious liquids from Cyprus and Mycenae, Greece, 3,500 years ago. These vessels were replicated by people in those areas, illustrating a link between the regions, van den Brink said.

Full Story here:
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/life/discov ... earths.htm

Seems like conclusive proof of Greek civilisation and trade in Cyprus and now Palestine, Israel and beyond.

[bill cobbett]

Gawd ... .... talk about stretching things to breaking point and beyond with the usual greekness codswallop.

These and so many other finds confirm that people thousands of years ago were far more adventurous in their travels and sea-faring and in developing trade routes than we sometimes give them credit for.... and it proves an inter-relationship between centres of population based on these tradings, within a web of areas influencing one another, with new technologies of value being replicated or with a similarly multi-directional spread of ideas.

Early Man/Woman invented Networking.

(Please get it out of your heads... this idea that neolithic and bronze age people were sitting around in caves dressed in animal skins waiting for the geeks to come along and bring in new modern ways. They travelled, they inter-mixed, ideas spreading from group to group.)

[Paphitis]

No one said that Neolithic man was a cave dweller waiting for the Greeks to come along and bring in new "modern ways" mate.

This is just some credible evidence that Greek seafarers had developed trade routes from Greece and Cyprus into the Middle East spreading Greek Culture and artifacts, which intermingled and blended with any local influences!

[bill cobbett]

No one said that Neolithic man was a cave dweller waiting for the Greeks to come along and bring in new "modern ways" mate.

This is just some credible evidence that Greek seafarers had developed trade routes from Greece and Cyprus into the Middle East spreading Greek Culture and artifacts, which intermingled and blended with any local influences!

My dear Paphitis, aren't you again confirming what I may or may not have accused you of earlier when you give this one way route of ...from Greece to...Cy ... to ....

My point really is that the routes were omni-directional, it wasn't one way traffic. Much like today with our vast and complicated world wide web.

[Gasman]

Or ... that even that long ago ... furriners were nicking things from the Greeks!