Amethyst seal engraved with balsam tree excavated in Jerusalem

ANCIENT BLING WATCH: Rare biblical ‘balsam tree’ found depicted on 2000-year-old amethyst seal. The small lilac stone featuring the engraving of a bird and a branch with five fruits had fallen in the main drainage channel of Jerusalem from the Second Temple period. (Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post).

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