3-year-old Israeli girl finds Canaanite scarab

[guy]

 

A 3-year-old Israeli girl has discovered an ancient Canaanite scarab while hiking with her family. (Scarabs are amulets and impression seals (shaped like scarab beetles) and were popular throughout ancient Egypt.)

The scarab is 3,800 years old and was found in Tel Azeka, which is mentioned in the Bible as the site of the battle between David and the Philistine giant, Goliath.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/three-year-old-girl-finds-canaanite-seal-where-bible-says-david-battled-goliath/

Edited Tuesday at 03:30 PM by guy

[indianasmith]

Amazing things are found in that ancient land almost every day.

[guidoLaMoto]

On 4/1/2025 at 7:44 PM, indianasmith said:

Amazing things are found in that ancient land almost every day.

...which means for us to find them so frequently, they must have been amazingly careless with their possessions. Surely only a small fraction of those items would survive to be found thousands of yrs later.....Maybe they lost so much because they hadn't yet invented the pocket for their togas?

We often blame the dryer for losing all those socks....Have we considered that maybe it was really the washer's fault?

I'm currently trying to invent a plastic detector so archeologists of the distant future will have a chance to find our lost artifacts.

 

 

[caesar novus]

2 hours ago, guidoLaMoto said:

for us to find them so frequently, they must have been amazingly careless with their possessions.

Downhill from an active archeo dig, with rare flood events; it seems like a natural concentrator. Reminds me of the ancient skeletons found in Kenya which were taken as proof of mankind's origin there. Actually it was no more likely to be an origin point than anywhere else within 1000 miles; it was just a natural preservation zone with deposition and periodic erosion. Now DNA evidence gives some nuance.

Edited yesterday at 10:41 AM by caesar novus

[guidoLaMoto]

Probabilities are still the major factor involved in finding artifacts- from the effect of any object's  durability to survive the years to the numbers of any particular object that existed....Future archeologists will find more Chevies than Ferraris and more Ferraris than Tiffany chandeliers....Biological specimens present particular problems. To become fossilized, the object must be buried rapidly to be separated from oxygen-- but the chances of eventually finding one still depends on the original population numbers- common species are found more often than uncommon ones.