http://mainzerbeobachter.wordpress.com/ ... t-megiddo/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;In mijn laatste stukje merkte ik op dat het feit dat de archeologen in Megiddo almaar beginnen over schatvondsten die ze hebben gedaan, sterk de indruk wekt dat ze niet vinden wat ze zoeken. Vandaag werd ik echter in het ongelijk gesteld. Israel Finkelstein maakte namelijk bekend dat er verbrande zaden zijn gevonden die naar het lab kunnen. Een datering is er niet, maar de heilige graal van de Israëlische archeologie is gevonden.
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ti ... m-1.455652" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Finkelstein takes his guests to a place on the mound overlooking the Jezreel Valley. Pointing to large, carved stones, he shows that they bear masons' marks - a square here, a circle there.
The stones, like other finds at Megiddo, were dated to the 10th century BCE, the period of King Solomon. But Finkelstein says such building blocks have been discovered only at the Israelite royal palace at Samaria and here at Megiddo.
In Samaria, he explains, they were dated to the 9th century, and at Megiddo to the 10th. "That was the place where I lit this whole bonfire," he says, referring to the controversy.
Finkelstein believes that the united monarchy of David and Solomon never existed; rather, there was a northern and, according to the Bible, apostate kingdom. This kingdom lost its glory because the Bible was written in Jerusalem centuries later, seeking to glorify the kings of Judah, he says.
Megiddo, Finkelstein says, was one of the most important cities in the northern kingdom - thus the identical masons' marks in Megiddo and Samaria. Megiddo was important both before and after the Israelite period; some scholars count as many as 30 cities, one atop the other. Major battles were fought here, and according to the New Testament's book of Revelation, history's last great battle, Armageddon, will take place here.