© Oscar Bejerano, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority
Pig skeleton wedged between crushed pottery vessels, at a First Temple-period site in Jerusalem Remains of piglet from 2,700 years ago support the theory that ancient Israelites occasionally did eat pork, and the biblical taboo on this animal was only first observed in Second Temple era, Israeli archaeologists say
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed the complete skeleton of a piglet in a place and time where you wouldn t expect to find pork remains: a
Jerusalem home dating to the First Temple period.
The 2,700-year-old porcine remains were found crushed by large pottery vessels and a collapsed wall during excavations in the so-called City of David, the original nucleus of ancient Jerusalem.
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