ISRAEL ARCHEOLOGY

Judean desert, evidence of the Maccabean revolt against the Greeks uncovered

epa10363347 Silver coins, of the First evidence in the Judean Desert for the Maccabean, Revolt against the Greek Seleucid Kingdom, are displayed at the laboratory of the Israeli Antiquities Authority, at the Israeli museum in Jerusalem, 13 December 2022. A rare wooden box containing a small hoard of 15 silver coins dating to the reign of Antiochos IV were discovered in an excavation in the Darageh in the Judean Desert dated to the days leading up to the Maccabean Revolt. The box was hidden in Muraba'at Cave in the Darageh Stream Nature Reserve about 2,200 years ago. EPA/ATEF SAFADI

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