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February 29, 2024

A 2,700-Year-Old Clay Seal Found in Jerusalem

“Governor of the City.”

While discoveries from the Second Temple era (516 BCE–70 CE) and the later Roman period are quite in common in Israel, findings from the First Temple period (destroyed in 587 BCE) are much rarer. Archaeologists recently identified such an item, dating to the 7th or 8th century BCE. Israel Hayom reports:

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