July
25
/ 2019
Five clay tablets depicting full-breasted naked ancient Egyptian women and a carved scarab have been unearthed by archaeologists digging at Rehob, a 3,500-year-old city in modern-day Israel. Mazar and Uri Davidovich are archaeological professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and they detailed their new findings in a paper published recently in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, which you can read here on the University of Chicago website. Tel Reḥov (Reḥob) was among the largest of the ancient Canaanite cities in the southern Levant during the Late Bronze Age (15th–13th centuries BC) and flourished when Egypt controlled much of the region. Mazar and Davidovich wrote in the journal article that “Rehob was constructed near Beth Shean
