Thursday, 22 December 2022

Coins Found from Time of Macabean Revolt


First evidence in the Judean Desert for the Maccabean Revolt against the Greek Seleucid Kingdom 
A rare wooden box containing a small hoard of 15 silver coins dating to the reign of Antiochos IV was discovered in an excavation in the Darageh Stream Nature Reserve, overlooking the Dead Sea 

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