The floor with 17 pictures of animals and birds is well preserved and has bright colors. It is from the fifth to the seventh century.
In Palestine was found an important stone of the Byzantine period. Archaeologists called it the most beautiful mosaic floor found in the country, especially in the city of Gaza. It was reported by The Art Newspaper.
He was found in the Bureij refugee camp, half a mile from the Israeli border, by Palestinian farmer Salman al-Nabakhin and his son. Last spring they planted an olive tree on their land.
“Never before have mosaic floors been discovered in the Gaza Strip with such finesse, graphic precision and richness of color,” said René Elter, an archaeologist at the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem.
However, the discovery is in immediate danger because it is located near the Israeli separation fence.
Gaza’s long-standing status as a war zone, under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade since 2007, has made it very difficult for foreign archaeological teams to work. As a result, many important discoveries in a vast area of land, interspersed with the remains of civilizations dating back five millennia, happen by accident. Although archaeologists unanimously claim that “there was a completely different Gaza under Gaza.”
“This is an exciting find, especially since our archaeological knowledge is unfortunately very patchy due to the events there. Gaza was very important during this mosaic period and was known for its growing wine production which -exported throughout the Mediterranean,” added the expert.
Recall that early archaeologists in Georgia discovered a 1.8 million-year-old tooth belonging to an ancient human species.
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