February
10
/ 2023
While sifting through dirt and rubble removed from a huge Roman structure discovered during excavations at Pilgrimage Road in the City of David in Jerusalem, a National Service volunteer found a small golden bead of a most peculiar type. The tiny, pure gold object has been dated to at least the fifth century (it could be somewhat older,) and was made from over a dozen miniscule gold balls that were fixed together to create a ring-shaped single bead with a hole in its center. This really is a tiny piece of craft worth examining! As revealed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in a post on their Facebook page, the ultra-rare bead was discovered by a young woman in the
