Coins, pottery, and ritual baths recently uncovered revealed a Hasmonean-era Jewish town at the Susya in Mount Hebron.
Ritual baths excavated at the site [Credit: Ariel University Press] |
To date, the heritage site in Susya has been known to visitors as a 1,500-year-old Jewish Talmudic town that was inhabited from the Roman to the Muslim periods. The new findings predate the town's known establishment by 600 years.
Coins discovered at site [Credit: Department of Land of Israel Studies at Herzog College] |
The site's diggers, students of the Department of Land of Israel Studies at Herzog College, were led by Dr. Itzhak Meitlis, an archaeologist and lecturer at the college.
Source: Arutz Sheva [December 13, 2017]