A rare archaeological find turned out to be a trip with a class to the south of the country for a 16-year-old Israeli teenager. According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, student Jonathan Frankel found an oil lamp at Scorpion Pass, a winding stretch of Highway 227 in the Northern Negev, south of the Dead Sea.
What he initially mistook for a piece of stone, after being cleaned of dirt and age-old layers, turned out to be a well-preserved fragment of a man-made artifact with elegant relief carvings.
According to experts, the age of this stone "Aladdin's lamp" is about 1600 years old, it was made in Petra, Jordan, approximately in the IV-V centuries. At that time, one of the trade routes ran through this area. It is noteworthy that a lamp like this one was already found in the same area 90 years ago, and was discovered by archaeologist Nelson Gluck during excavations in Eastern Palestine in 1934-1935.
According to Tali Erikson-Gini, a senior researcher at the Israel Antiquities Authority, such oil lamps illuminated forts built on the site from the Scorpion Pass to the Zafir Mezad over copper and, possibly, gold mines, which were guarded by Roman legionaries.
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