September 11, 2022

Rare ivory plaques dating back thousands of years to Solomon's Temple and are believed to have been part of a throne have been unearthed in Jerusalem.

One of the experts who uncovered them said they were the first of their kind to be uncovered in the City of David in Jerusalem. The City of David is an archaeological site that is believed by experts to be the original center of Jerusalem during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

Zenger News obtained the images from the Israel Antiquities Authority on Monday, along with a statement saying that the "fine items were apparently inlaid in a couch-throne placed in a palatial structure."

The Israel Antiquity Authority said: "The discovery, unearthed in excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University in the Givati Parking Lot in the City of David in the Jerusalem Walls National Park, sheds new light on the power and importance of Jerusalem at the time of the Judahite Kingdom."

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