“We know that human trafficking happened in the area for millennia until very recently,” IAA senior researcher Dr. Tali Erickson-Gini told The Times of Israel in a phone interview. “We are all familiar with the biblical story of Joseph being sold to a caravan of Midianites, then to the Ishmaelites, and finally to Egypt. However, archaeological finds testifying to the phenomenon are rare. Our discoveries seem to be connected precisely to that human trade.”This article fills out the case that the site is associated with human trafficking by caravan.
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