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Archaeologists find 'Harbinger' fallen bricks
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Isaiah 9:10 is the key verse around which the bestselling Christian book in America over the last two years was written.
It is also the key verse around which the bestselling faith movie in America over the last two years was crafted.
And now archaeologists have found some of the 2,700-year-old ruins that the obscure verse of the Bible is about.
“The fortifications appear to protect an artificial harbor,” Tel Aviv University’s Alexander Fantalkin, leader of the excavations at the Ashdod-Yam archaeological dig, said about the discovery. “If so, this would be a discovery of international significance, the first known harbor of this kind in our corner of the Levant.”
The find was announced at the end of the first excavation season at Ashdod-Yam in the contemporary coastal city of Ashdod, just south of Tel Aviv. At the heart of the fortifications is a mud-brick wall measuring more than 12 feet wide in some places, and 15 feet high. The wall is covered in layers of mud and sand that stretch for hundreds of feet on either side.
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