A 3 -year -old girl discovers a 3,800 -year -old treasure during the family outing in Israel

A toddler unearthed a former treasure during a family outing in southern Israel this month, officials said.

During the visit to the archaeological site such as Azekah, about 80 kilometers south-east of Tel Aviv, Ziv Nitzan, 3, found a scarab amulet which belonged to Canaanite communities dating from 3,800 years, according to the authority of Israel Antiquities, a national conservation agency. Site with biblical meaning, such as Azekah is a hill created from the debris of the colonies built on each other over time.

The discovery occurred in early March, said the child’s sister, Omer Nitzan, at Antiquities Authority.

“We were walking along the way, then Ziv leaned himself – and all the stones around her, she picked up this particular stone,” said Omer Nitzan, according to the agency. “When she rubbed it and removed the sand, we saw that something was different on this subject.” The family then discovered for the authority of antiques.

Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of Egyptian archeology at the Israeli museum in Jerusalem, whose expertise involves amulets and old seals, determined that the small treasure came from the average bronze age, a period flowing around 2100 to 1600 before eastern Mediterranean. Canaanites were an early semitic population living in this area which appears in biblical texts.

The scarab -shaped amulets like that of Nitzan have encountered are small ornate objects designed to imitate a manure of manure, according to the authority of Israel Antiquities. The agency notes that these tiny treasures date back to ancient Egypt, where the manure of manure was “considered sacred” and considered as “a symbol of new life” or even of God.

“The scarabes were used in this period as seals and as amulets,” said Ben-Tor in a press release. “They were found in the tombs, in public buildings and in private houses. Sometimes they carry symbols and messages that reflect religious beliefs or status.”

Nitzan discovered the amulet in a section of Tel Azekah where historical artefacts have already been found, archaeologists said. The other identified artifacts included the city walls and the agricultural structures of the kingdom of Judahite, which existed during the Iron Age during the last millennium before the common era.

“We have been rummaging here for almost 15 years, and the results of the excavations show that during the medium bronze and late bronze, here in Tel Azekah, prospered one of the most important cities of the bass lands of Judea,” said Oded Lipschits, professor at Tel Aviv University who led an archaeological excavation on the site. “The scarab found by Ziv joins a long list of Egyptian and Canaanite discoveries discovered here, which attest close ties and cultural influences between Canaan and Egypt during this period.”

The amulet will appear in a special exposure of the authority of Israel antiques for Passover in mid-April.