A Roman-era sarcophagus, likely to have belonged to a prominent individual, was uncovered at the site of a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered last year in the northern Gaza Strip, the territory's antiquities ministry said on Tuesday.For more on the Roman-era cemetery found last year in Gaza, see here and here.[...]
Another, evidently smaller, cemetery from the same period was found in a Gaza resident's back yard in 2018.
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