Intact Tomb Found

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Intact Tomb Found

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Bronze-age Canaanite tomb found intact in Bethlehem.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... wD990AVH00
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Workers renovating a house in the traditional town of Jesus' birth accidentally discovered an untouched ancient tomb containing clay pots, plates, beads and the bones of two humans, a Palestinian antiquities official said Tuesday.

The 4,000-year-old tomb provides a glimpse of the burial customs of the area's inhabitants during the Canaanite period, said Mohammed Ghayyada, director of the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
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Well, if it is in Bethlehem, which is in the West Bank territory and under Palestinian control, then I guess it would have to be a “Canaanite period” burial and not a Jewish one.

Interesting just the same.
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Those distinctions didn't matter in the Early-Middle Bronze Age. The dead lie there peacefully while the world changes above them.
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I don't know, Min.

That part of the world seems to have been cursed with everything from all out army on army fighting, to a raiding party on the neighbors now and then, to getting along together, ever since records have been kept.

You are sure correct about the people in the hole though.
They were beyond careing anymore.
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Is there a part of the world that does not have a piece of that legacy, kb? Man is a bloody bastard.
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