Posts from May 2018

A treasure trove of seals and small finds discovered close to Jerusalem’s U.S. Embassy Archaeologists working at Arnona, Jerusalem have unearthed a large administration storage center literally brimming with lmlk seals and other exciting discoveries, dating to the reigns of biblical kings Hezekiah and Manasseh—the late eighth-seventh centuries bce. The more than 120 administrative seals discovered makes this one of the largest and most important seal collections in Israel. Most of the seals were of the “lmlk” variety. These are a certain administrative seal that was stamped onto…