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An ancient farmhouse dating back to 2,800 years ago — complete with 23 rooms, wine presses and a grain silo — is no longer lost to the ages. Over the past few weeks, archaeologists have uncovered the sprawling stone house in Rosh Ha-‘Ayin, in central Israel.
Archaeologists found the farmhouse during an excavation that the Israeli government needed to have done before construction could begin to enlarge the modern city. The house, which measures 98 by 131 feet (30 by 40 meters), is “extraordinarily well preserved,” Amit Shadman, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, said in a statement.
The farmhouse dates back to an era when the Assyrians conquered northern Israel….
The farmhouse continued to be used in the sixth century B.C., when the Jewish people returned to Israel after the Babylonian exile. The building remained active even later, during the Hellenistic period that followed in the wake of Alexander the Great’s military conquests.
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