Bible and archaeology news
A 2,000-year-old golden bell, perhaps worn by a Temple priest, was discovered last week by Israeli archaeologists excavating an ancient sewer line in Jerusalem's Old City.
The bell was found during the excavation of a Roman-era sewer that runs beneath Jerusalem’s Old City. According to Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the bell’s owner likely “walked in the street, and somehow the golden bell fell from his garment into the drainage channel.”
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