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King David era artefacts discovered in Israel
Jerusalem, June 17
Israeli archaeologists
discovered 3,000-year-old ceramics from the time of the biblical King
David in a reservoir in the Valley of Elah, the Israel Antiquities
Authority has announced.
This is the fourth entry of this type
discovered to date, dating from the 10 century BC under the kingdom of
Judah, Efe news agency rteported on Tuesday.
Pieces of clay jars
were found in 2012 in excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Valley of
Elah, near the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, and where, according to the
biblical account, the mythical battle between David and Goliath took
place.
In the fragments were inscriptions that aroused the
curiosity of researchers, who reconstructed them and were able to
decipher the name of King Eshbaal, one of the four sons of King Saul,
the founder of the kingdom of Israel.