#Hazor

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Hello, friends! I apologize for my absence as of late, I unfortunately ended up in a situation where I didn't have access to the internet for a little while and had to get everything sorted out. There's a lot of things I'm excited to do here, but for now I'd just like to hopefully make up for it with these sketches of ancient symbols of 𒀭ʾEl-ʿElyon and 𒀭Lady ʾAshirat :)

Great Seal of 𒀭ʾAshirat: This is the Asherah-tree symbol as it appears on the famous Pithos A from the Kuntillet ʿAjrud site. It probably came from around the early 8th century BCE when the former Judean outpost was under Northern Israelite control and bears a now-famous inscription mentioning “𒀭Yahweh of Samaria and 𒀭ʾAsheratah.” The ornately-depicted Sacred Tree nourishes two flanking ibex, the sacred animal of 𒀭ʾAshirat, and rests above a lion which symbolizes a Deity's strength in ancient Canaanite iconography.

Small Seal of 𒀭ʾAshirat: This more simplistic iteration of the Tree-and-Ibex symbol is found on the famous Lachish ewer from the end of the Bronze Age and is most notable for its remarkable resemblance to the Menorah of the later Temple of 𒀭Yahweh at Jerusalem.

Small Solar Seal of 𒀭ʾEl: This design is found on the head of a sceptre held by a bronze seated figurine of 𒀭ʾEl in intact gold leaf from a Bronze-Age Temple at Megiddo (Tel Megiddo). It was made around the same time as the Lachish ewer and is believed to invoke the Sun and its beams in a similar way to more recognizable Egyptian or Mesopotamian solar symbols. Another theory holds that it depicts a flower.

Seal of the House of 𒀭ʾEl: Yet another 13th century BCE find, this peculiar insignia is featured on a bronze sceptre head coated in silver leaf which would have been inserted into a wooden pole to be grasped by a life-sized cult statue of 𒀭ʾEl. A stylized human face is flanked by serpents and zigzag lines topped with an upturned crescent. At the bottom and the top is another sign resembling the omega-shaped womb symbol originally associated with the Mother Goddess 𒀭Ninhursag of the Sumerian Pantheon (cf. the cow uterus headdress of the ancient Egyptian childbirth Goddess 𒀭Meskhenet and the “Hathoric curls” hairstyle associated with 𒀭Lady ʿAshtart and 𒀭Qadesh). This design was described as a “cult standard” by the archaeological team who discovered it in a destruction layer at Hazor (Tel Hazor) in the 1950s and I've interpreted it to symbolize the House of 𒀭ʾEl which is also the House of all the Gods and Goddesses. The artifact was found in what appeared to be a small shrine indicating it possibly received some kind of veneration of its own.

Great Solar Seal of 𒀭ʾEl: This is from another bronze sceptre head with silver leaf and was discovered in a 12th century BCE layer at the site of a Canaanite Temple in Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir). I've followed the interpretation that this is a solar symbol similar to the one from Megiddo. A solar disc with three nesting circles is backed by a sort of oblong "halo" which represents the Firmament of Heaven in my view. The Sun with its life-giving rays shown descending upon the Earth here has been interpreted as an anthropomorphic figure as well. I can also see the broad outer bands and the thin inner streams having to do with 𒀭ʾEl's Abode of Mount Lalu being located “at the Source of the Two Rivers, at the Confluence of the Channels of the Two Deeps” according to Ugaritic texts.

Thanks so much for checking this out!

My source for the pictures of and information on the 𒀭ʾEl sceptres is “The sceptres of life-sized divine statues from Canaanite Lachish and Hazor” by Yosef Garfinkel in Antiquity 94:375 (2020), pp. 669–685, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.44.

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Judgment Against Surrounding Nations

1 About Ammon’s children, thus says Adonai: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then did Malcam dispossess Gad and his people settled in its towns? 2 Therefore behold, days are coming” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “when I will sound an alarm of war heard against Rabbah of Ammon! It will become a mound of ruins. Her villages will be burned with fire. Then Israel will dispossess those who dispossessed him.” it is a declaration of Adonai. 3 “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated! Cry, daughters of Rabbah! Wear sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro within the walls, for Malcam will go into captivity together with his priests and princes. 4 Why do you brag about valleys— your flowing valley, faithless daughter? Trusting in your treasures: ‘Who will come against me?’ 5 I am about to bring terror on you” —a declaration of my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot— “from all those around you. Each of you will be banished headlong, with no one to gather the fugitives. 6 Yet afterward I will restore Ammon’s children from exile.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

7 About Edom, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Is counsel lost to the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? 8 Flee! Turn back! Stay low, inhabitants of Dedan, for I will bring Esau’s calamity on him at the time that I punish him. 9 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came at night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves? 10 But I will strip Esau bare. I will uncover his hiding places, so he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring has been destroyed with his kinsmen and neighbors. So he is nothing. 11 Leave your orphans—I will keep them alive, and let your widows trust in Me.” 12 For thus says Adonai: “Behold, if those who do not deserve to drink the cup must surely drink, can you go utterly unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you shall surely drink! 13 For I have sworn by Myself” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “that Bozrah will become a horror, a disgrace, a waste and a curse. All its towns will be ruins forever.” 14 I heard a message from Adonai. An ambassador is sent to the nations: ‘Gather together, come against her, and rise up for war!’ 15 For see, I made you least among nations, despised among men. 16 Your terrorism has deceived you, so that your heart is arrogant. You who live in the clefts of the rock, who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s, I will bring you down from there.” It is a declaration of Adonai. 17 “Edom will become a desolation. Everyone passing by will be appalled and hiss at all its plagues. 18 Like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah and their neighbors,” says Adonai, “no one will live there, nor any son of man dwell there. 19 Look, it is like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a secure pasture— for abruptly I will make him run away from it. I appoint over it whomever I choose. For who is like Me? Who will summon me to court? What shepherd stands up to Me?” 20 Therefore hear the plan that Adonai has drawn up against Edom, and His strategies that He designed against the inhabitants of Teman. Surely the least of the flock will be dragged away, Surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them. 21 The earth will tremble at the noise of their downfall. The sound of their outcry will be heard at the Sea of Reeds. 22 Behold, he will mount up and swoop down like an eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The hearts of Edom’s warriors in that day will be like a woman’s heart in her pangs.

23 About Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are ashamed, for they heard bad news, They melt away; in the sea there is trouble that cannot be quiet. 24 Damascus has become feeble. She turns away to flee, panic grips her, anguish and pangs have seized her, like a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise deserted— the city of my joy? 26 Therefore her young men will fall in her squares— all the warriors will be silenced in that day. It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot. 27 “I will set fire to the wall of Damascus— it will devour Ben-hadad’s palaces.”

28 About Kedar and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says Adonai:

“Arise, go up against Kedar and devastate the children of the east. 29 They will take away their tents and their flocks. They will carry away their curtains, all their gear and their camels. They will cry out against them, ‘Terror on every side!’ 30 Flee! Scatter far! Stay low, inhabitants of Hazor!” It is a declaration of Adonai. “For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and devised a plan against you. 31 Arise, go up against a nation at ease, dwelling securely,” says Adonai. “They have no gates or bars; they dwell alone. 32 Their camels will become plunder, their many cattle a spoil. I will scatter to all the winds those who shave the edges. I bring their calamity from every side.” It is a declaration of Adonai. 33 “Hazor will be a lair of jackals, a desolation forever— no one will abide there, nor any son of man dwell there.”

34 The word of Adonai that came to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam, at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, saying, 35 thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot:

“Behold, I will break Elam’s bow— the source of their might. 36 I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them to all those winds. There will be no nation where the dispersed of Elam will not go. 37 I will shatter Elam before their enemies and before those seeking their soul. I will bring calamity on them— My burning anger!” It is a declaration of Adonai, “I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them. 38 Then I will put My throne in Elam and destroy from it king and princes.” It is a declaration of Adonai. 39 “Yet it will be in the end of days, that I will restore Elam from exile.” It is a declaration of Adonai. — Jeremiah 49 | Tree of Life Version (TLV) Tree of Life (TLV) Translation of the Bible. Copyright © 2015 by The Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society. Cross References: Genesis 10:22; Genesis 22:16; Genesis 25:13; Genesis 25:30; Exodus 15:11; Leviticus 19:9; Numbers 1:24; Numbers 10:9; Deuteronomy 28:49; Deuteronomy 29:22; Joshua 7:2; Judges 18:7; 1 Kings 15:18; 2 Kings 14:7; 1 Chronicles 5:21; Psalm 46:9; Psalm 68:5; Isaiah 13:20; Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 17:14; Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 21:13; Jeremiah 6:19; Jeremaih 9:26; Jeremiah 11:22; Jeremiah 12:15; Jeremiah 16:16; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 33:9; Jeremiah 48:47; Jeremiah 50:46; Matthew 20:22; Matthew 24:8; Acts 9:2; Romans 9:29; 1 Timothy 6:17; Revelation 7:1

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Hazor and Your cross interactions?🥹🥹

i just found Yer blog and you left their dinner date on a cliffhanger:,))🥺🤚

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Sadly I did! T.T I got injured at the beginning of July and am slowly getting caught back up with work and everything! I do plan to pick back up!

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Hazor

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Joshua 11: God Defeats The Northern Kings For Israel

1 When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph, 

2 and to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth Dor on the west; 

3 to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah. 

4 They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots—a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 

5 All these kings joined forces and made camp together at the Waters of Merom to fight against Israel.

6 The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.”

7 So Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of Merom and attacked them, 

8 and the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left. 

9 Joshua did to them as the Lord had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

10 At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.) 

11 Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself.

12 Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. 

13 Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds—except Hazor, which Joshua burned. 

14 The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed. 

15 As the Lord commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.

16 So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills, 

17 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death. 

18 Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time. 

19 Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. 

20 For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

21 At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. 

22 No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.

23 So Joshua took the entire land, just as the Lord had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.

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Tel Hazor is mentioned 19 times in the Bible. In the book of Joshua, Jabin was a powerful Canaanite king who headed a coalition against the advancing Israelites. However Joshua & his soldiers defeated the Canaanites & burnt Hazor to the ground.

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Bible instruction for destroying idols

In 1984, on my first of nine lengthy trips to Israel, I was eager to study Bible Archaeology to teach my Bible College students and friends. An English visitor who was boarding in the same Israeli home insisted I visit a dig ten miles north of the Sea of Galilee. I hopped on a bus and went to Tel Hazor, northern Israel’s largest archaeological site. It’s upper hilltop defense area covers 30…

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Spoils of War

Joshua 11: 13-15. But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn. And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe. As the…

[pathsofart]

The painting depicts the moment when Jael kills Sisera. Sisera was the commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin of Hazor, and Jael was a Kenite woman who killed him while he was sleeping in his tent.

[bi-numi-aliyani]

Two myths from ancient ʾUgarit: ʿAnat Binds the Dragon and ʿAshtart the Huntress

An early eighth century BCE stamp seal discovered at Tel Hazor depicting a Hero-Deity slaying a seven-headed serpent. Source: Uehlinger, Christoph. “Mastering the Seven-Headed Serpent: A Stamp Seal from Hazor Provides a Missing Link Between Cuneiform and Biblical Mythology”. Near Eastern Archaeology 87:1 (March 1, 2024), pp. 14–19. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-258353.

Hey folks, these are my versions of some fragmentary myths from the ancient Ugaritic corpus. A lot of what I used to fill in the blanks is based on other Ugaritic literature and I'm sure those with a lot more experience than me reading them will notice pretty quickly.

The first text, KTU 1.83, has been subject to quite some discussion among scholars in the past. I present it here to feature 𒀭Maiden ʿAnat's slaying of the monstrous serpent Lotan (cf. Biblical “Leviathan”) and the Sea-God 𒀭Yam's other cohorts as She recalls in Tablet 3 of Baʿal. I primarily used the “provisional” translation of this text provided in Religious Texts From Ugarit (2nd edition, 2002, pp. 368–69) by Nathaniel Wyatt with credit as well to Wayne T. Pitard's edition titled “The Binding of Yamm” (J. Near East. Stud. 57(4):261–80, Oct. 1998) and Simon B. Parker's translation as “The Binding of a Monster” in Ugaritic Narrative Poetry (1997, pp. 192–93).

Next is KTU 1.92, somewhat more coherently narrating a hunt of 𒀭Lady ʿAshtart and 𒀭Lord Baʿal's passion for Her. My interpretation of this text has some more draw from general Semitic mythology and symbolism. Wyatt (pp. 370–74) is again my main source with further reference to Baruch Margalit's interpretation of the obverse text (Part I) as “A [sic] Ugaritic Theophagy” (Aula Orientalis 7:67–80, 1989).

I hope you enjoy these take on ancient stories of the Goddesses and Gods of Canaan 💛

Anat Binds the Dragon

When Lotan the Shifting Serpent burst forth with one lip to Heaven and one lip to Earth,

it was unleashed by 𒀭Desire, Beloved of 𒀭ʾEl, the 𒀭Rogue, the Bullock of 𒀭ʾEl,

by 𒀭Fire, the Bitch of 𒀭ʾEl, 𒀭Flame, Daughter of 𒀭ʾEl,

they came out from ʿArsa;

with its fangs it thrashed the Sea to foam,

with its forked tongue it kissed the Heavens,

with its split tail it thrashed the Sea to foam.

𒀭ʿAnat snared the Dragon on high,

She bound it on the heights of Lebanon.

Towards the desert shall You be scattered, O 𒀭Yam!

To the multitudes shall You be crushed, O 𒀭Nahar!

You shall not see: You shall foam up!

𒀭ʿAnat will strike You down, O 𒀭Yam, Beloved of 𒀭ʾEl,

slay You, O 𒀭Nahar, the Great God.

She snared Tunnan and vanquished him,

struck down the Writhing Serpent, the Tyrant of Seven Heads;

She strikes down 𒀭Desire, Beloved of 𒀭ʾEl,

vanquishes the 𒀭Rogue, the Bullock of 𒀭ʾEl;

She strikes down 𒀭Fire, the Bitch of 𒀭ʾEl,

makes an end of 𒀭Flame, Daughter of 𒀭ʾEl;

𒀭Maiden ʿAnat battles for the Silver,

She seizes by force the Gold.

ʿAshtart the Huntress

Scribal note: Of Thabil.

Part I. The Hunt of ʿAshtart

 𒀭ʿAshtart went out on a hunt,

 She headed into the wild grazeland.

 She polished the tip of Her Spear,

 the Stars and the Crescent of the Moon favored Her bounty.

 And lo! The hills began to shake,

 the abysmal waters boiled up,

 as a herd of antelope dashed off to the Marsh,

 the swamp where buffalo graze.

 She unsheathed Her Spear.

 𒀭ʿAshtart sat and hid in the Marsh,

 at Her right She placed Her dog Crusher,

 at Her left Boomer.

 She lifted up Her Eyes and looked:

 a drowsing Hind She espied,

 a Bull eating in the pond She saw!

 Her Spear She grasped in Her Hand,

 Her Lance in Her Right Hand.

 She hurled the Spear at the Bull;

 She felled 𒀭Baʿal, Servant of 𒀭ʾEl.

 As She went home She thought:

 She would feed Him to 𒀭ʾEl the Bull, Her Father,

 She would feed Him to the Sons of 𒀭ʿAshirat for dinner.

 She would feed Him to 𒀭Yariḫ's indomitable gullet,

 She would serve the dinner to 𒀭Kothar-wa-Khasis, 𒀭Heyan the Ambidextrous.

 Thereafter, when 𒀭ʿAshtart arrived at Her House,

 She set away Her Implements of the Hunt.

Part II. Baʿal and ʿAshtart

 𒀭ʿAshtart asked after the Guardian of the Vineyard

 for She sought 𒀭ʾEl the Bull, Her Father, Master of the Vineyard.

 She stood about the vines clad in a Veil of Linen,

 donning an Aegis of Cypress, Lady 𒀭ʿAshtart,

 the Kilt She wore catching the Splendor of the Male Stars,

 Her Sash the Magnificence of the Female Stars.

 Once the Maiden had changed,

 𒀭Baʿal longed after Her;

 the Valiant One wondered of Her Beauty!

 𒀭Baʿal the Victorious desired to know Her by heart.

 He was glad to see Lady 𒀭ʿAshtart, but She was frightened by the Son of 𒀭Dagan.

 He heard Her cry peal across the Valley and the Coast,

 past the Two Ṣurs, beyond Ṣidun and Gebal,

 echoing off ʾAlashiya and Caphtor,

 Ṣapon and Lebanon brought low, Lalu and ʾInbubu brought high,

 She lifted up Her Voice to the Guardian of the Vineyard,

𒀭Baʿal-Hadad called out:

 “Seventy-seven times You have caught My Eye,

 “eighty-eight pierced My Heart!”

But the Guardian answered Him:

  “The City is guarded against Your Flesh.

 “Do not return to the Court of the Children of 𒀭ʾEl!”

 Thereafter, 𒀭Baʿal went up to 𒀭Ṣapon, His Holy Stronghold,

 crushed the Heart of 𒀭Baʿal the Prince for want of comfort of the living.

 But lo! His Eyes lit up, He beheld His Lady with vessels of wine,

 𒀭ʾAshtart the Heifer made feast with the Rider on the Clouds,

 a supper of honeycomb and wine and all kinds of fish;

 She opened the City Gates for 𒀭Baʿal the Victorious,

 Standard raised in triumph for the Rider on the Clouds.

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JAEL // HEROINE

“She is a heroine of the Battle of Mount Tabor, described in chapters 4 and 5 of the Book of Judges. In the account, she delivers the Israelites from the army of King Jabin of the city of Hazor in Canaan. After Barak demurs at the behest of the prophetess Deborah, God turns Sisera (commander of King Jabin's army) over to Jael, who kills him by driving a tent peg through his skull after he enters her tent (Judges 4:17–21) near the great tree in Zaanaim near Kedesh.”

(painting is “Jael and Sisera” by Artemisia Gentileschi)

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🔵 Mon night  - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

❗️FIREFIGHT BETWEEN IDF AND EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS AT RAFAH BORDER CROSSING.. at the Egyptian border Rafah crossing an Egyptian army force opened fire at an IDF force, who returned fire.  There were no casualties to IDF forces, on the Egyptian side there were several casualties including 1 dead (various reports of 1-4 dead).

Egyptians fired at an Israeli APC, which returned fire.

Israel and Egypt are investigating the causes of the incident.

▪️IRAN NUKES.. "The Atomic Energy Agency says that Iran continues to enrich uranium to a level approaching the level needed to produce weapons. Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium exceeds 30 times the permitted limit."

.. The US appealed to the member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency with a request not to escalate the upcoming discussion with Iran.

▪️POLITICS.. on the conscription law, a minister appealed the “law of continuity” allowing the law from the last government to be re-put for a vote. Appeal rejected - the law placed in the cycle, vote in 14 days.  Defense Minister Gallat against the appeal and against the law, “I think you have forgotten what the unity government was formed for, so let me remind you: for the war, not for elections (positioning).”

▪️TERROR STABBING - OLD CITY, JERUSALEM.. Cotton Gate.  Serious injury.  Terrorist killed.

▪️MERON RE-OPENED TO THE PUBLIC.. briefly thereafter hit by multiple rocket barrages.  Recommend avoiding the area!

▪️HOUTHIS.. “we attacked 2 US Navy destroyers plus 2 cargo ships in the Indian Ocean.”

▪️PROTEST - PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTEST IN HAIFA.. support for the Palestinians and calling for an end to the war in Gaza, with Palestinian flag.  Police acting against illegal demonstration with enemy flag.

🔸DEAL - - NO DEAL.. Hamas: "The movement informed the mediators that it will not participate in any negotiations with Israel after the fire incident in Rafah."

♦️IDF BURNED A SERIES OF CARS.. in Samara, Kfir Dan, which then blew up with major secondary explosions - - they were car bombs.

♦️RAFAH.. A report of a sudden movement of tanks from the south of Rafah towards the north with panicking the few remaining residents. IDF robotic (no soldiers) armored vehicles spotted in the area of ​​Tel Za'arb, close to Za'arb square in the southwest of Rafah.

⭕ CROSS BORDER WALL INFILTRATION - TULKARM to EMEK HEFER.. infiltrators captured.

⭕ 50 ROCKETS FIRED AT MERON TODAY by Hezbollah.

⭕ 30 ROCKETS FIRED AT KIRYAT SHMONA today by Hezbollah.

⭕ 3 ANTI-TANK MISSILES at Margaliot - significant building damage.

⭕ CROSS GREEN LINE FIRE.. at Merav inside Israel, from the Jenin area.

⭕ OVERALL 5 ROUNDS of HEZBOLLAH ROCKETS, 1 ROUND OF SUICIDE DRONES.

⭕ HAMAS ROCKETS at near-Gaza towns, 1 round.

🔥 FIRE TERROR.. at Paduel and at Nachal Shilo.  Areas of the Israeli villages evacuated.

🔥 FIRE TERROR.. set fire to the Ba'al Hazor air control base in Benjamin and caused a fire in the open area next to it.

🔥 LARGE FIRE BY KIRYAT SHMONA.. set off by a suicide drone.

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MY CHOCKER NECKLACE ARRIVED!!! :D

-TW: fake hazor blade-

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Archaeologists discover fragment of medieval inscription of church in Melnik

124 artifacts made of stone, ceramics, and metal were discovered during archaeological excavations in the Church of the Holy Mother in the town of Melnik in the Blagoevgrad province of southwestern Bulgaria.

Archaeologists find Pompeii fresco depicting Greek mythological siblings

In a remarkable discovery at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, archaeologists have unearthed a fresco depicting the Greek mythological siblings Phrixus and Helle.

Botanical findings analysis from Biblical area of Goliath sheds unprecedented light on Philistine ritual practices

Bar-Ilan University researchers shed “unprecedented light” on Philistine ritual practices, such as the use of psychoactive and medicinal plants, by analyzing plant seeds and fruits from two temple excavation sites in Tell es-Safi/Gath, central Israel.

Roman wooden cellar found in Frankfurt, Germany

Archaeologists from the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum have recently uncovered a remarkably preserved wooden cellar in the Roman city of Nida in Frankfurt, Germany.

Museums

A colossal statue of Atlas that lay buried for centuries among ancient ruins has been reconstructed to take its rightful place among the Greek temples of Agrigento in Sicily, after a 20-year research and restoration project.

Suspect detained for Molotov cocktail attack at Latvia's Museum of the Occupation

The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, in the centre of the country's capital, Riga, was attacked with a Molotov cocktail overnight on 28 February. The museum posted on its Facebook page on Wednesday that “a window in the director's office was broken” and “a lit bottle of incendiary mixture” was thrown into the building.

Repatriation

By May 2023, after more than a year of repeated seizures of looted or stolen artifacts by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the Metropolitan Museum of Art had apparently had enough. In an internal letter to staff, Max Hollein, Met director and CEO, announced that the museum would create a dedicated four-person provenance research team to proactively identify looted artworks in its encyclopedic collection. Later published on the Met website, the letter read: “The emergence of new and additional information, along with the changing climate on cultural property, demands that we dedicate additional resources to this work.”

Ethiopia calls for British auction house to cancel the sale of a looted shield

The government of Ethiopia has called for the cancellation of a sale of a shield at a British auction house. The object was looted in 1868 during the Battle of Maqdala, a punitive expedition against the Ethiopian Empire carried out by British forces. Ethiopia has requested that the shield be restituted by the U.K.

Auctioneer withdraws looted Maqdala artifact from sale after Ethiopian official restitution request

Heritage at risk

Thousands of Native American and colonial sites in Georgia are under threat from increasing storm surges caused by climate change, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS One. The study has identified 4,200 sites at risk of flooding or inundation from Category 5 hurricanes at present sea level. However, this number will increase to around 5,000 sites by the year 2100, with over 2,000 additional sites threatened by weak tropical storms.

Odds and ends

A new natural technique for cleaning and preserving priceless ancient Egyptian papyrus that are in danger from bacteria and fungi has been discovered by researchers. This new technique employs wasabi – yes, the pungent green paste accompanying your sushi – to combat the relentless threat of fungal damage on these precious historical documents.

An overdue reckoning: How Sweden continues to deny its settler-colonial past

For the past decades, the two communities of which I am a part—Sámi, from the part of Sápmi that falls within Sweden’s borders, and the Swedish majority society—have been developing in different directions. The former is making an effort to take a close look at history in order to slowly move towards greater openness. However, large parts of the latter seem to be rewriting history as a pure fantasy of Swedishness. In doing so the Swedish majority society is closing itself off to the outside world.

Why a historian is looking forward to the new Shōgun series

The original Shōgun was a rare phenomenon. More than 1,200 pages and 400,000 words in length, it proved stunningly successful, staying on the best-seller list for more than 30 weeks and selling millions of copies. The 1975 novel presented a fictionalized account of a real event: the arrival of an English pilot, William Adams, to Japan in 1600. Clavell reimagined the story, giving his hero (whom he renamed John Blackthorne), a starring role in the archipelago’s turbulent domestic politics in the months leading up to the climactic battle of Sekigahara, which brought more than a century of constant warfare to a final end.

Phillipa Gregory on how the Norman invasion brought patriarchy to England

The invasion of England by the Norman army in 1066—Duke William of Normandy versus King Harold of England—would be far more than a regime change for the women of England. It was the hardening of a tyranny by men who captured the kingdom and its fortune, passed it father to son excluding women, created laws enslaving women, composed religion and philosophy to denigrate women; men whose violence was directed at women, and whose need for cash and greed for profit would underpay and overwork women for centuries.

Helicopter used in Tintagel Castle conservation work

A helicopter has been used to deliver gravel during conservation work at Tintagel Castle. English Heritage is carrying out maintenance on the pathways around the castle's island on Cornwall's north coast.

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Silver-plated Standard with Serpents from Tel-Hazor (Depicts snake deity? Goddess? God? Hauron?) Tel Hazor / Chatsor in Upper Galilee, Israel c. 1300 BCE Photograph by Zev Radovan

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Destruction of Hazor