Coins, pottery, and Ritual Baths recently uncovered revealed a Hasmonean-era Jewish town at the Susya in Mount Hebron. Ritual baths excavated at the site [Credit: Ariel University Press]The findings are surprising in light of historical reports about Hasmonean activity to convert the Edomites who lived in the region, in year 112 BCE. The discovery a settlement site from the time of the Hasmonean Kingdom may shed light on this...

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