3,800-year old ancestor of Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ statuette
*Jug was found by a team of Israeli archaeologists and high school students
*Other items were found such as daggers, arrowheads, an axe head
*The collection of artefacts appear to be funeral offerings, says expert
An unusual 3,800-year-old pottery jug, bearing a statuette of a person who appears deep in thought, has been discovered in Israel.
The ancient piece of crockery was found by a team of archaeologists and students during an excavation in Yehud, a Tel Aviv suburb.
It bears a striking resemblance to The Thinker, Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture.
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*Other items were found such as daggers, arrowheads, an axe head
*The collection of artefacts appear to be funeral offerings, says expert
An unusual 3,800-year-old pottery jug, bearing a statuette of a person who appears deep in thought, has been discovered in Israel.
The ancient piece of crockery was found by a team of archaeologists and students during an excavation in Yehud, a Tel Aviv suburb.
It bears a striking resemblance to The Thinker, Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material on this site is distributed without profit and is made
available for research and educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided
for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law.
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