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IPFS News Link • Archaeology

10,000-year-old house uncovered outside Jerusalem

11-25-2013 • timesofisrael.com

With range of dramatic finds in excavations ahead of highway expansion, archaeologists trace 10 millennia of human development A remarkable archaeological find in the Judean lowlands southwest of Jerusalem includes a six-millennia-old cultic temple and a 10,000-year-old house. The ancient sites were located in routine archaeological digs conducted ahead of a planned expansion of Route 38, the main access road to Beit Shemesh. The building is the oldest ever found in the area, and constitutes remarkable “evidence of man’s transition to permanent dwellings,” researchers said Monday.

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Reported By Robert Lee

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