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SEE IT: 2,000-year-old silver coins found in Judean cave near Dead Sea

A wooden box containing 15 silver coins that are said to be around 2,200 years old was found in a Judean Desert excavation in Israel.

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2,200-year-old trove of silver coins gives hard evidence of Hanukkah events

Archaeologists have uncovered a cache of 2,200-year-old silver coins near the Dead Sea, which they say is the first physical proof that Jews fled to the Judean Desert during the upheaval and persecution under Hanukkah villain Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

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2,200-year-old coin hoard gives hard proof of Book of Maccabees, say archaeologists

Trove of silver coins two months' average salary documents bloody persecution preceding the famous Hanukkah revolt when Jews fled to the desert, as written in I Maccabees 2:29

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First Evidence of Maccabees Revolt in Judean Desert Unearthed | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | David Israel | 19 Kislev 5783 – December 13, 2022

First Evidence of Maccabees Revolt in Judean Desert Unearthed | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | David Israel | 19 Kislev 5783 – December 13, 2022
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