At a national park last week, construction workers discovered an underground chamber filled with earthenware vessels and other items, which appear to have remained untouched for some 3,300 years. Eli Yannai, an expert on the Bronze Age with the Israel Antiquities Authority, described it as “a once-in-a-lifetime find” and compared it to “an Indiana Jones set.” Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:
Yannai believes the vessels were imported from Lebanon, Syria, and Cyprus, which he said was common for burial assemblages of the era. Dozens of pottery vessels of different sizes and shapes were found, including deep and shallow bowls, some of which are painted red, some holding bones; cooking pots; jugs and clay oil lamps that still held their burnt wicks.
Other organic materials may have disintegrated over the millennia, including a likely quiver that held an array of bronze arrowheads or spearheads that were found in the cave.
Yannai dates the finds in the cave date to the 13th century BCE (Late Bronze Age IIB), or roughly the period that most date the biblical Exodus story in which Rameses II is often cast as the hard-hearted pharaoh who would not let Moses’s people go.
Read more on Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/frozen-in-time-3300-year-old-burial-cave-accidentally-discovered-at-popular-beach/