For history buffs.

[Svengoolie 3]

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/cache-of-900yearold-gold-coins-dating-back-to-the-crusades-discovered-in-israel/

[indianasmith]

It is amazing how much stuff is being found there every year.  They got Pontius Pilate's signet ring the other day . . .

[BoyScoutKevin]

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.

[indianasmith]

Perfectly preserved - except for a large, still-smoking, radioactive hole in the back!   

[ER]

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.