Tourist Uncovers Hidden Gold Treasure in Holy Land !

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists said they have unearthed more than 250 gold coins from the seventh century on the edge of Jerusalem's walled Old City.

A British tourist volunteering at the dig discovered the trove on Sunday.

Israel's Antiquities Authority said the Byzantine-period hoard was found in the ruins of a building where a striking 2,000-year-old gold earring from the Roman era was dug up last month.

The site is located in a parking lot alongside the ancient city's southern wall.

The coins bear the image of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius, who ruled between 610 and 641 A.D. He is depicted wearing military dress and holding a cross in his right hand.

[Heraclius was the last Byzantine emperor to rule over Jerusalem, which fell to Muslim Arab armies in 637.]

A statement Monday said the coins had likely been hidden in a niche in one of the building's walls.


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[GeorgiaBoii32]

i woulda most deff got some in my pocket

[Mnezami]

Many gold treasures were found in Jordan but were confiscated by the Royal family. None of it ever made it to Jordanian museums, and when we ask, usually they say it was auctioned in London for the royal family,,,, they say !, but I witnessed three incidents in Jarash, where Roman gold was found and was taken by members of the royal family of Jordan.

[jimmyjazz1570]

@lizard944 shut up cunt....the post also says that the Jordan royal family take all the gold discovered there and sell it...you prick

[lizard944]

Nice seeing the jew doing what they always do; looting and pilfering. If this were a true dig they would be gridding and photographing everything. But alas, it is just simple theft.

[PUFFEDUPUSS]

think ive got food poisoning call me a taxi i need to go home before i faint should have brought my anti bactirial cream.. opps excuse me realy sorry i farted ( holding my stomeach) got to go got to go .................LATERZ ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!

[RonSafreed]

There is another aspect of religion of the Bible than Judaism/Christianity older than either&excisted is some cultures into the 20th century In the Bible there are people(Genesis chapters1-12 before Abraham to really Moses, Job&Corneilius e.c.t) This devout monotheistic folk religion was in all cultures&peoples histories very early in human history. Most peoples fell from it but some held it til the 20th century book-Eternity In Their Hearts by Don Richardson Regal Books 1981&Authur CustanceFYI

[RonSafreed]

John Wycliffe1330-1385 who translated the Bible from Latin to middle English in 1382 felt that the Bible should be in the tongue&hands of the masses In 1442 his remains were dug up&a trial was held condemming him His bones were burned to powder&dumped in a river Evil men over 1000 years put the Bible under lock&key&most clergy&all laity had no access to it What Wycliffe did was illegal but was never caught Many Christians, atheist&others don't know this i read his lifestory&I have the book FYI.

[RonSafreed]

The bible has bbe accessible to the masses less than 500 years William Tyndale1498-1542 was the first to mass publish Bibles using a printing press They cost a man a week's wage He smuggled them to England from Belguim Before it took 10 months to handwrite a Bible Tyndale spoke 9 languages He was a wanted man betrayed&caught,tried&executed in Brussels1542 I read his lifestory&have the book The path for the masses having Bibles was long&bloody over hundreds of years. Many folk don't know thisFYI.

[bradbbs]

@RonSafreed I saw that it proves there is gold their. Your god still doesn't exist.

[hydraman5]

@GeorgiaBoii32 ah well,maybe she did!

[raspberrybaggio]

I would have stuffed them in my pants and socks:)

[hanghoodiescum]

ide have swallowed half a dozen of them sweet sweet gold coins