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Ancient Weight Used to Measure ‘Temple Tax’ Offering Discovered in Jerusalem

by Joshua Spurlock • October 13, 2020 • 0 Comments

A stone dating to the First Temple period more than 2,500 years ago and is thought to have been used to accurately weigh the Biblical “temple tax” was recently discovered in Jerusalem. The find may be small in size, but…

Ancient Grenade among Family Inheritance Given to Israeli Authority

by Joshua Spurlock • August 24, 2016 • 0 Comments

The Mazliah family in the central-region of Israel recently inherited a small trove of ancient artifacts—including a hand grenade almost 500-years-old, or perhaps even older. And the family’s father, Marcel, had simply accumulated a collection of historical items by retrieving…