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What We Dug Up This Month
01-31-2011
JANUARY 2011 Vol. 1 - Issue 2
400,000-YEAR-OLD TEETH DISCOVERED NEAR TEL AVIV
Eight 400,000-year-old teeth were discovered in the Qesem Cave near Rosh Ha'Ayin east of Tel Aviv this month. The teeth, resembling a similar shape and size of those of modern-day humans, were uncovered by Professor Avi Gopher and Dr. Ran Barkai of Tel Aviv University's Department of Archeology. The archeologists believe the discovery may overturn the theory that Homosapiens emerged from Africa some 200,000 years ago.
DEAD SEA SCROLLS GO DIGITAL
The 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls have been digitalized and will be available for online viewing in early 2011 as part of a new project launched by the Israel Antiquities Authority in collaboration with Google Israel. Using the most advanced and innovative technologies, the entire collection of more than 900 Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts will provide additional online data on the text fragments in a broad range of languages. This is the first time in more than 50 years that the collection of Scrolls has been photographed.
1,800-YEAR-OLD BATHING POOL UNEARTHED IN JERUSALEM
An 1,800-year-old bathing pool was unearthed during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem last month. The pool, believed to have been part of a bathhouse used by Roman soldiers, includes several plastered bathtubs and a pipe believed to have been used to fill the pool with water, as well as industrial mosaic pavement with engravings of the word "Fretensis," signifying its relation to the Roman Tenth Legion. The discovery also sheds light on the location of Aelia Capitolina, the ancient Roman city that was founded on the Second Temple period ruins in Jerusalem.
A 1,700-year-old Roman statue was revealed by winter storms in Ashkelon, Israel's coastal city south of Tel Aviv, earlier this month. The four-foot, 440-pound white-marble
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