2,000-year-old Tomb Door With Menorah Found in Northern Israel
Repurposed over the ages, the slab tells the story of religion in the Middle East
Ruth Schuster Dec 12, 2017 8:53 AM
All they wanted was to build a sports center in Tiberias. But then as a salvage exploration cleared away mountains of garbage, between the rats, beer bottles and junked cars they found archaeological remains, and a stone tomb seal that tells the story of religion in the Middle East.
The stone is a basalt rock entombed with a seven-branched menorah, that had sealed a Jewish tomb in Tiberias almost 2,000 years ago. It then spent several centuries as the foundation for a pillar in a mosque, and then found itself serving as a stone stair in a Crusader-era sugar factory, archaeologists say.
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