according to the University of Haifa in Israel. Archaeologists found the hoard of about 160 of the coins during ongoing excavations in the Jordan Valley, which runs between the Israeli-occupied ...
A fragment of a porcelain bowl was found on Mount Zion during an archaeological dig carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (GPIA).
Haifa University team finds cache of 160 extremely rare coins - dated to 80/79 BCE, during the reign of Judah Maccabee's grand-nephew - near Alexandrion Fortress, north of Jericho ...