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Anti-diplomacy.
December 9, 2020
An Ancient Engraving of a Menorah Is Discovered a Second Time
In a major hub of the Maccabean revolt.
In 1980, an excavation of the town of Michmas—located about six miles outside of Jerusalem—uncovered a 2,000-year-old engraving of an menorah, which was then forgotten. Recently a scholar has re-examined it in light of new evidence, dating it to the mid-2nd century BCE, around the time of the Maccabean revolt. Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:
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An Ancient Engraving of a Menorah Is Discovered a Second Time
In a major hub of the Maccabean revolt.