New discoveries show Israel’s pre-Biblical importance
Oct 20, 2016, 5:34 AM
Researchers from Harvard and the Smithsonian have recently unearthed a 10,000-year-old village called Ain Ghazal in Jordan, one of the oldest sites showing the fateful human transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers growing crops and domesticating animals.
They also made sculptures and built circular shrines. The oldest such site goes back an astounding 23,000 years—much earlier than previously supposed — and was found on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The New York Times reports on a new scientific consensus that such settlements almost surely appeared first in modern-day Israel and Jordan; this means that civilization itself originated in the Holy Land, prior to the celebrated later developments in Egypt and Mesopotamia.
For the Biblically-minded, these stunning discoveries indicate that this very special but very small corner of planet earth – the ancient land of Israel and its immediate surroundings – was hugely important in human history long before the events described in the Old and New Testaments.
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