A 1,500-year-old church has been discovered at a Byzantine period rest stop on the road connecting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, archaeologists announced. 1,500 year old Church found
Uncovering the ancient past is not uncommon in Israel, an archaeologically rich region where plenty of construction projects have revealed artifacts and ruins. For instance, archaeologists digging trenches on the side of Israel’s Highway 38 in preparation for a road widening discovered a 10,000-year-old house that is considered one of the region’s oldest dwellings. A salvage excavation last year, before construction of an interchange on southern Israel’s Highway 31, turned upa Byzantine monastery near the Bedouin village of Hura in the northern Negev Desert.
In other finds, a 900-year-old wealthy estate complete with a garden and mosaic fountain emerged during excavation ahead of bridge construction along Israel’s Highway 44, and a Stone-Age carving of a phallus was discovered during a project to expand Highway 1 in Israel.
