Tower of David Museum Chief Curator Eilat Lieber said that "the discovery of the first mold for producing figurines dating to the First Temple period has generated tremendous excitement."
Additional discoveries made a the site included a bronze candelabrum and marble reliquary, both the largest of their kind to ever be found in Israel.
Burials such as these are unique, as only about 50 “seated skeletons” have been found across a dozen archaeological sites in Europe.
The stele was discovered during the three-year-long restoration efforts of a gateway from the time of Ramesses III in Karnak.
Simply made pottery jars, beads, copper jewelry, and stone and mortar hammers were discovered within the cistern alongside the remains.
The eggs were discovered near the remains of a campfire believed to have been connected to prehistoric desert nomads who collected, cooked, and ate the eggs at the site.
The discovery was made in an ancient shipwreck in the Dor Lagoon near the Carmel Coast, where archaeologists recovered nine pieces of unprocessed iron known as “blooms.”
