“ He had teeth ”: a 3 year old young people discovers an old treasure in Israel

A 3 and a half year old man in Israel recently made a significant archaeological discovery.

The child, Ziv Nitzan, hiked with his family last month on a earth path about 40 kilometers from Jerusalem when a little rock drew his attention. She was drawn to it, she said in an interview with Hebrew by her mother, because “there were teeth on it”.

Naturally, Ziv picked it up. When she rubbed the dirt, “she noticed that it was something very special,” said her mother, Sivan Nitzan.

The attractive roller turned out to be an Egyptian amulet 3,800 years old, engraved with the design of an insect known as the scarab and dating from the Bronze Age, according to the authority of the Israel Antiquities, which then collected it.

It was not the first time that a young hiker has come across an archaeological treasure in Israel, given his rich history.

Last year, when he was hiking on Mount Carmel in Haifa, a 13 -year -old boy found a ring from the Roman era with an engraving by the goddess Minerva. In 2016, a 7 -year -old boy traveling with friends from Beit She’an Valley discovered a well -preserved sculpture of a naked woman. And many children with lively eyes have discovered pieces made during periods of Roman or Hasmonée domination.