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February 12, 2024

A Rare Amulet May Be a Relic of the Assyrian Invasion of the Kingdom of Israel

A reddish-brown scarab.

At the bottom of a mountaintop in the Lower Galilee, once home to the city known as Tel Rekhesh, an Israeli hiker recently found a biblical-era amulet with a depiction of a scarab. Gavriel Fiske reports:

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