Archaeologists find ancient cave in Israel that serves as ‘portal to underworld’

Archaeologists find ancient cave in Israel that serves as ‘portal to underworld’

Archaeologists found an ancient cave in Israel that allegedly serves as a portal to the underworld. In a recent excavation, the archaeologists in western Jerusalem found more than 100 ceramic lamps squeezed into the cave's crevices. They theorised in a new paper that these were most likely used to conjure up dead spirits and their secrets —a practice known as necromancy.

From WION 

Archaeologists discover 125 tombs including two rare sarcophaguses at Roman-era cemetery in Gaza

Archaeologists have found at least 125 tombs in a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered in Gaza last year, most with skeletons still largely intact, and two rare lead sarcophaguses.

The impoverished Palestinian territory was an important trading post for civilisations as far back as the ancient Egyptians and the Philistines depicted in the Bible, through the Roman empire and the crusades.

From ABC

Archaeologists may have found a Viking house the length of almost two tennis courts

“A finely ornamented handle for a knife or fork was found here during a metal search a few years ago,” says Christian Løchsen Rødsrud, the leader of the nearly three-month-long excavation at Sem in Eiker this summer.

The knife or fork is associated with King Christian IV, who was the king of Denmark and Norway from 1588 to 1648. He stayed at the royal estate at Sem several times.

From ScienceNorway.no

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