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The Color Purple. In Ancient Israel Author: Gary Byers MA Created: 13 May 2021
In January 2021, the Central Timna Valley (CTV) Project published in the online journal
PLOS ONE the results of their excavation of an ancient copper mining and smelting operation in southern Israel, along with an analysis of three specific items found in the excavation. Their report offered to the world – because this respected peer-reviewed research journal is available online to everyone – a special look into the world of the ancient Near East and the Bible.
Timna Copper Purple
Three dyed textile fragments were excavated at a site named “Slave’s Hill” by archaeologists in the 1930s. It is within a copper mining and smelting production district in the Timna Valley of southern Israel – once the territory of the ancient kingdom of Edom. In a shallow depression just above bedrock within a mixed locus of reddish sediments and crushed sandstone, wool yarn
Traces of Exotic Foods Detected on Bronze Age Teeth
MUNICH, GERMANY
Courthouse News Service reports that an analysis of the proteins obtained from the dental calculus on 16 Bronze Age skeletons in northern Israel suggests that spices, fruits, and oils might have been imported from South and East Asia centuries earlier than had been previously thought. Traces of turmeric and soy were detected in the ancient dental plaque on a resident of the Canaanite city of Megiddo, while at Tel Erani, a Nagada Egyptian trading post, traces of banana were found on the teeth of another individual. Philipp Stockhammer of Ludwig-Maximilians University said it is possible that these two individuals may have lived in South Asia at some time in their lives and ate the local diet before they traveled to the Levant. On the other hand, Stockhammer and his colleagues think the goods may have passed through trade centers in Egypt and Mesopotamia for wider distribution across the eastern Mediterranean