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August 9, 2018

A 2,200-Year-Old Earring Sheds New Light on a Mysterious Period in Israel’s History

And may help clarify Jerusalem’s borders at the time.

Working at the Givati parking lot in the City of David area of Jerusalem—which in the past few years has become a hugely fruitful source of ancient artifacts—archaeologists have discovered a gold earring dating to the 3rd or 2nd century BCE. Little is known about this period in Jewish history, which stretches from the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BCE to the Maccabean Revolt in 167 BCE. Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:

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