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  • Leave a Comment on As far as his bathtubs were concerned, it is incorrect. Herod the Great’s royal tubs, one found decades ago in the Kypros fortress and one recently discovered in the palace of Herodium, both just south of Jerusalem, were made of stone quarried in Israel, not in Egypt.
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    As far as his bathtubs were concerned, it is incorrect. Herod the Great’s royal tubs, one found decades ago in the Kypros fortress and one recently discovered in the palace of Herodium, both just south of Jerusalem, were made of stone quarried in Israel, not in Egypt.

    Analysis has demonstrated that they were his personal tubs, the team writes. Why did Herod have bathtubs, anyway? Because he sought to introduce Roman cultural norms to Judea, including Roman bathing culture, a habit recently demonstrated to have led the ancient Romans to share not only bathwater, but also parasites. Anyway, asked when the local quarries…

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  • Leave a Comment on Nor was Israel thought to have the beautiful white calcite alabaster from which Herod’s bathtubs and many other artifacts, from cups to pillars, were fashioned. Which leads to the latest revelation, published by Dr. Ayala Amir of Bar-Ilan University, with Prof. Aren Maeir, Prof. Boaz Zissu and Prof. Amis Frumkin of the Hebrew University in the Nature journal Scientific Reports Herod would, of course, have wished for the finest alabaster for the greater glory of God and/or himself. The assumption had been that he obtained calcite alabaster for his bath facilities from Egypt, a key source of this soft stone in antiquity. Supporting that contention, no calcite alabaster quarries had been found in Israel. Until they were, Amir explains.
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    Nor was Israel thought to have the beautiful white calcite alabaster from which Herod’s bathtubs and many other artifacts, from cups to pillars, were fashioned. Which leads to the latest revelation, published by Dr. Ayala Amir of Bar-Ilan University, with Prof. Aren Maeir, Prof. Boaz Zissu and Prof. Amis Frumkin of the Hebrew University in the Nature journal Scientific Reports Herod would, of course, have wished for the finest alabaster for the greater glory of God and/or himself. The assumption had been that he obtained calcite alabaster for his bath facilities from Egypt, a key source of this soft stone in antiquity. Supporting that contention, no calcite alabaster quarries had been found in Israel. Until they were, Amir explains.

    “Until a few years ago, we knew of no alabaster quarries in Israel and in Egypt there’s a ton,” Amir says. “So there had been a clear understanding that anything made of alabaster calcite had to have been imported from Egypt.” In fact, this importation of alabaster from Egypt began all the way back in…

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  • Leave a Comment on Archaeologists Find Unexpected Source of Stone for King Herod’s Bathtubs The assumption had been that the alabaster for the royal hygienic furnishings and other artifacts in Second Temple-period Judea was Egypt. Not so, analysis at Bar-Ilan University finds
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    Archaeologists Find Unexpected Source of Stone for King Herod’s Bathtubs The assumption had been that the alabaster for the royal hygienic furnishings and other artifacts in Second Temple-period Judea was Egypt. Not so, analysis at Bar-Ilan University finds

    “And now Herod, in the eighteenth year of his reign, and after the acts already mentioned, undertook a very great work; that is to build of himself the temple of God.” – Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus, XV Chapter 11 King Herod, the vassal king appointed by the Romans in 40 B.C.E. to rule Judea…

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    Vilarinho da Furna

    In 1971 Vilarinho da Furna was flooded, in the Peneda-Gerês National Park. The village was inhabited by about 300 people, who had to move to neighbouring towns. Nostalgia is felt by many whenever the waters recede as they remember the village as it was originally built, with granite dwellings, characteristic of the region. The drought…

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    Vilar da Amoreira

    Located in the district of Coimbra, the dam located in the parish of Portela do Fojo, in Pampilhosa da Serra, is one of the largest dams in Portugal. Vilar de Amoreira was the village that disappeared with the construction of the dam. Submerged by the river Zêzere, the ruins of a village that has been…

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  • Leave a Comment on Drought revealing underwater ghost towns Portugal is going through one of the most complicated drought periods on record. The water level in the dams has dropped at a rapid rate, revealing the once flooded villages and towns.
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    Drought revealing underwater ghost towns Portugal is going through one of the most complicated drought periods on record. The water level in the dams has dropped at a rapid rate, revealing the once flooded villages and towns.

    The construction of dams in some cases implies the submersion of villages and Portugal carried out these works in some localities of the country. In the inhabited areas, villages were rebuilt, or housing was offered to those whose properties were submerged in the creating of the dams. Currently, due to the effects of the severe…

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