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Phoenician Figurines

In the early 1970s Fisherman and Diver Rubi Shosmus made an amazing discovery off the coast of Sh...

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16.16 25 Sep 2020


Phoenician Figurines


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16.16 25 Sep 2020


In the early 1970s Fisherman and Diver Rubi Shosmus made an amazing discovery off the coast of Shavei Zion in northern Israel.

On the seabed lay hundreds of ancient figurines.

What Shosmus didn’t find was the wreck of a ship.

So how did they get there?

Dr. Meir Edrey is an Archaeologist at the University of Haifa


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