I have really no idea what any of this means, but it seems interesting: Hasmonean rule reached the Negev in Israel, declare archaeologists
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced that it had found physical proof that the Hasmoneans’ rule, which lasted from the middle of the second century BCE to the middle of the first, extended deep into the Negev.
“We are talking about a revolutionary discovery that will redraw the maps of the region which describe that era,” Dr. Tali Erickson-Gini, the scientific editor of the excavation, said in a statement.
“Despite the evidence of the historian Josephus, according to which (the Hasmoneans’ rule extended south of Gaza), no clear archeological proof of this has been found in the field. And it was because of this lack of proof that historians were inclined to dismiss the possibility that the Hasmoneans did indeed control the Negev,” he added.
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