5 hours agoThe statue that according to historians has Bible character is discovered
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(8 years ago)The engineer, Mario Tobia, discovered a stone head during excavations in an ancient Jewish city called Abel Beth Maacah. The statue shows the face of a man with a beard and black skin and must have been 25cm in size. The piece was found among the ruins of an administrative building, what to do [...]
The statue shows the face of a man with a beard and black skin and must have been 25cm in size.
The piece was found among the ruins of an administrative building, which suggests that it should be a stone portrait of a prominent character; perhaps a king, but who. Tests indicate that it may have been produced between 900 and 800 BC.
According to researchers at that time, Abel Beth Maacah was very close to the border of the three kingdoms that controlled the city at different times. This reduces the candidate list to three mains.
One of them may have been King Acab of Israel, mentioned in the Bible, specifically in the first book of Kingdoms. The book reports that it was a monarch who carried out great conquests but who fell into disaster when he broke Moses ' laws because he brought pagan cults under the influence of his wife, Jezebel.
And the other two candidates are Hazael, the king of Aram-Damasco, and Ethbaal the sovereign of Tyre. / world.al
