Friday, April 14, 2023

This necklace took 5,000 years to make.

THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: A PIERCING INSIGHT INTO ANCIENT BEADS.
At first glance, one may think this is simply an artifact discovered in the sifting, which may tell a single story from a single period, but one important part of this item isn’t a recovered artifact – the string. What we have in front of us are in fact 35 different beads, discovered separately, each telling the story of a different necklace or other pieces of jewelry and articles of clothing.
Also, there is a specialist on the technology of drilling ancient beads? Of course there is.

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