Spectacular Artifacts Found in Two Ancient Shipwrecks archaeology science
have discovered hundreds of silver and bronze coins, silver and gold rings, rare gems, figurines and bells during the ongoing excavations of two ancient shipwrecks off the coast of Caesarea.
The archaeologists found hundreds of silver and bronze Roman coins from the mid-third century CE and a large hoard of silver coins from the Mamluk period. “Among these were a beautiful red gemstone for setting in a ‘gemma’ ring; the carving of the gemstone shows a lyre. In Jewish tradition, it is called Kinor David.”
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