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Title: For history buffs. Post by: Svengoolie 3 on December 16, 2018, 05:07:42 AM https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/cache-of-900yearold-gold-coins-dating-back-to-the-crusades-discovered-in-israel/ (https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/cache-of-900yearold-gold-coins-dating-back-to-the-crusades-discovered-in-israel/)
Title: Re: For history buffs. Post by: indianasmith on December 16, 2018, 06:09:35 PM It is amazing how much stuff is being found there every year. They got Pontius Pilate's signet ring the other day . . .
Title: Re: For history buffs. Post by: BoyScoutKevin on December 26, 2018, 02:36:10 PM It is amazing how much stuff is being found there every year. They got Pontius Pilate's signet ring the other day . . . Yes, it is. I even heard they found a pair of Trevor's underpants perfectly preserved. Title: Re: For history buffs. Post by: indianasmith on December 26, 2018, 02:37:50 PM Perfectly preserved - except for a large, still-smoking, radioactive hole in the back! :bouncegiggle:
Title: Re: For history buffs. Post by: ER on December 27, 2018, 09:24:23 PM Probably nowhere else on the planet will you find the resources of a tiny nation harvested so efficiently as the citizens of Israel make use of what they have, and their ability to develop their land yet respect the past and seek it out archaeologically should be a model for all mankind. I love following the almost weekly discoveries there.
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