Find Jewish Aged 2000 Year of Documen

A 2000 year old document with Hebrew have been found by the police and authorities antiques, giving its own light for Jewish life in the era of post-golden era temples in the land of Israel.

Document that was originally believed to be unearthed in an excavation is worth millions of dollars illegally.

Two Palestinians were expected to have the document was arrested on Tuesday and police looking for "a group of robbers" were allegedly working with them, Amir Ganor, who heads the unit theft prevention Israel Antiquities.

"We suspect that the document was stolen from an illegal excavation," he said, adding that authorities were still trying to determine exactly when the document was found.

Papyrus with size 15 × 15 cm is 15 lines long and is clearly dated in it, "Year 4 to the destruction of Israel." Archaeologists say that it is raising a strong presumption that the documents were prepared in 74 AD, four years after the Second Temple destroyed by the Romans, or the year 139 CE, after the destruction of rural settlement in Judah following the Bar Kokhba Revolt.

Amir Ganor, head of the Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery Antiquities told Israel National News, "We heard about the papyrus was a few months ago, and after an investigation by police and other units involved, we contacted the right people a few weeks this. "Asked when it was found and removed from the ground, he said," there are still grains of soil on the papyrus, and since it was offered for sale in recent months, it is likely that it was found in the previous period.

Asked if he knew where it was found, Ganor said, "The best climatic conditions for storing documents of this nature over the centuries is the desert of Judea, and that is our assumption." Investigation as to where and how it was found is still continuing.

Discovery of the document is the culmination of an operation led by the Secret Service Office of Zion area (Central Jerusalem) and Jerusalem Border Police Undercover Unit and Employees archaeological staff in the Civil Government.

"It looks like we are dealing with a rare historical evidence relating to the Jews in their country more than 2,000 years ago," Ganor summed up.

The document was written in ancient Hebrew script characteristic of the Second Temple period. The writing style is known of the early Dead Sea scrolls and various reliefs found in graves and coffins. The papyrus is incomplete and probably rolled; pieces of it crumbled, especially along the bottom and left side. The name of a woman, "Miriam Ben Yaakov" can also be read in the document, followed by a name that is likely to be the name of the village where he lived: Misalev, believed to turn into bingo and possibility at the present time known as Shaalvim Kibbutz Ayalon Valley.

mentioned in the document the names of the people and families, the names of a number of villages of the Second Temple period, and the words of the law relating to the rights of property of a widow and her relinquishment.

The document is believed to be a letter of surrender property rights and the document written by the widow woman (Miriam Ben Yaakov).

Ganor said that the document is "95%" believed to be genuine and ancient, "based on the style of inscriptions and writings, which include historical date that can ditaksirkan." However, "because the object is not found in a proper archaeological excavation, the papyrus was still must undergo laboratory analyzes in order to exclude the possibility that the papyrus is a modern forgery. "

The document is very important from the standpoint of historical and national research, "Ganor stated. "Until now, almost no scrolls or historically valuable documents from this period have been found in archaeological excavations viable ... The decomposition of the whole document by experts inscriptions and historians can shed light on how people at the time set their affairs and supplement our knowledge about their way of life. What we have here is rare historic evidence about the Jewish people in their country more than 2,000 years ago, during the days that followed the destruction which sent the Israelites into exile for a long time - until the creation of the State