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Iron age residents of Judea regularly eat non-Kosher fish like catfish despite it being strictly forbidden under Jewish dietary laws, a new archaeological study found.
Examining fish bones dating back thousands of years, found at 30 archaeological sites in Israel, let Ariel University in Israel researchers uncover the dietary secrets.
The team found no evidence of people following rules banning the eating of fish species without scale or fin until the Roman era in the 6th century CE.
The findings shed fresh light on the origin of Old Testament dietary laws still observed by Jewish people today, that mythology and religious history suggest were first introduced by Moses in the 12th century BCE.
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Food fragments discovered in an ancient toilet in Oxford helped scientists confirm that Britain s medieval Jewish community avoided pork and kept kosher .
While this has long been thought to be the case, this is the earliest concrete evidence so far of the diet in the UK.
Scientists from the University of Bristol and Oxford Archaeology, excavated the 12th century toilet found in the ancient Oxford Jewish quarter around St Aldates.
During excavations, archaeologists found a stone-built structure, identified as a latrine, and dated to the late 11th and 12th century.
Inside the fragments from the latrine, as well as cooking pots from the attached house, scientists discovered evidence of kosher foods, including domestic fowl and herring, along with an absence of any pig bones.
Lord Mayor Councillor Mark Lygo at the service A service of reflection was broadcast online yesterday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The Lord Mayor of Oxford, Councillor Mark Lygo hosted the service which was attended by local councillors and faith leaders plus MP Annaliese Dodds. Every year January 27 is set aside to remember the millions of people who were murdered in the Holocaust and the genocides that have followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. This year the national theme was “Be the light in the darkness”.