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September 7, 2017

Clay Seals Provide Evidence of 8th-Century Israelite Refugees Coming to Jerusalem

Where they took up important administrative roles.

Historians have long believed that, after the Assyrians destroyed the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 720 BCE, many of its residents fled to the Southern Kingdom of Judah and settled there. The recent discovery of clay seals (technically known as bullae) in Jerusalem—then the Judaean capital—provides evidence of this migration, as Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:

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