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Rameses II-era burial cave found in Israel

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Last updated: 2022/09/18 at 10:39 PM
StarAvis Desk Published September 18, 2022
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Images from the burial cave show several pots and vessels dating back to Rameses II, Source: DW
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A team of experts finds pottery pieces and bronze artefacts dating back to the time of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh who died in 1213 BC.

A team of Israeli archaeologists has made a “once-in-a-lifetime” discovery of a burial cave dating back to ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II.

The discovery was made on Tuesday when the group found pottery pieces and bronze artefacts dating back to the reign of the ancient Egyptian king, who died in 1213 BC, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Sunday.

At least one intact skeleton was also found in two rectangular plots in the cave.

The cave was uncovered on a beach when a mechanical digger working at the Palmahim national park hit its roof, with archaeologists using a ladder to descend into the spacious, man-made square cave.

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In a video released by the IAA, gobsmacked archaeologists shine flashlights on dozens of pottery vessels in a variety of forms and sizes.

Bowls – some of them painted red, some containing bones – could be seen in the cave along with footed chalices, cooking pots, storage jars, lamps and bronze arrowheads or spearheads.

The objects were burial offerings to accompany the deceased on their last journey to the afterlife, found untouched since being placed there about 3,300 years ago.

At least one relatively intact skeleton was also found in two rectangular plots in the corner of the cave.

“The cave may furnish a complete picture of the Late Bronze Age funerary customs,” said Eli Yannai, an IAA Bronze Age expert.

An archaeologist enters a funerary cave discovered in the central Palmahim park area on Israel’s Mediterranean coast – a site containing untouched finds such as pottery vessels that date back to the 13th century BCE during the rule of Egypt’s Pharaoh Rameses II [Emil Aladjem/Israeli Antiquities Authority/AFP]

It is an “extremely rare… once-in-a-lifetime discovery”, Yannai said, pointing to the extra fortune of the cave having remained sealed until its recent uncovering.

The findings date to the reign of Rameses II, who controlled Canaan, a territory that roughly encompassed modern-day Israel and the Palestinian territories.

The provenance of the pottery vessels – Cyprus, Lebanon, northern Syria, Gaza and Jaffa – is testimony to the “lively trading activity that took place along the coast”, Yannai said in an IAA statement.

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The cave has been resealed and is under guard while a plan for its excavation is being formulated, the IAA said, noting “a few items” had been looted from it in the short period of time between its discovery and closure.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

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