2000-year-old mosque mystery discovered in a region of Israel (Video/Photo)
(8 years ago)Archaeologists have discovered a door to the ancient tomb with a complex carving of Menorah (the ninth - tree plant lit during the eight - day festival of Hannus) in the region of Galilee in Israel. The journey shows a seven-delighted mennorah one of the main symbols of Judaism. Researchers hope that the door, which was reused for him [...]
The journey shows a seven-delighted mennorah one of the main symbols of Judaism.
Researchers hope that the door, which was reused to form a shortcut into an ancient mosque, will serve as a reminder of Israel's multicultural heritage, reports “Daily Mail”, Periscopi broadcasts.
Until the door was first discovered in 2010 in Tiberia, archaeologists of the Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology have only now distributed it to the public.
The door was found during the digging of an earlier mosque and works dating back to the seventh century.
But researchers believe that the door is much older than this, and it is likely to date back to the second centuries until the fourth century.
Dr. Cytryn-Silverman said: “we found that the highest way of a scale leading to a small room was actually a part of an iron door”.
The “Two such tombs, perhaps descended from the Jewish cemetery north of the classical city [of Tiberiada], had already been brought into this area during the eighth century, when the Umayyads transformed the plain mosque of the seventh century. ”
Under the seventh century mosque, the plaque was used as a base for a pillar, according to scholars.
But after an earthquake that destroyed the mosque in 1068, the site became part of a sugar factory until the building collapsed in the early 13th century.
Researchers now hope to further analyze the door to understand its use. /Periscopi/