1,800-year-old relics: Gold jewelry found in Jerusalem burial cave worn against 'evil eye'

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1,800-year-old relics: Gold jewelry found in Jerusalem burial cave worn against 'evil eye'
For the first time, gold jewelry found in late Roman-era Jerusalem burial cave to go on display.
Israel National News

Jerusalem the Golden: Why were young girls buried, adorned with fine gold jewelry, in Jerusalem in the Roman period?

On Monday, items of gold jewelry, discovered in past excavations in burial caves in Jerusalem, will be exhibited to the public for the first time, at the 48th Archaeological Congress organized by the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel Exploration Society and the Israel Archaeological Association. The congress will take place at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel, now inaugurated in Jerusalem.

The new research uncovered the remains of a lead coffin discovered on Mount Scopus, containing jewels including gold earrings, a hairpin, a gold pendant and gold beads, carnelian beads and a glass bead. The jewels were discovered in 1971, in an excavation carried out by Yael Adler (deceased) of the Israel Department of Antiquities but the finds were not published.

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