Location:
JERUSALEM, ,
Post Date:
Dec 16, 2014 5:28 PM
TAG ID:
xnaphotos466740
(RM)
Credit:
JINI/Daniel Bar-ON / Xinhua News Agency/Newscom
Format:
5472 x 3648 Color JPEG
Photographer:
JINI/Daniel Bar-ON
Keywords:
ie
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
(141216) -- JERUSALEM, Dec. 16, 2014 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli archaeologist works on the excavation site of a 2,800-year-old farmhouse in the the city of Rosh HaAyin, central Israel, on Dec. 16, 2014. Israel's Antiquities Authority announced Monday it has recently unearthed a 2,800-year-old farmhouse during salvage excavations in the city of Rosh HaAyin. The structure was built during the Assyrian conquest in the eighth century BC and is comprised of 23 rooms that extend across an area of 1,200 square meters and is "remarkably well-preserved," said excavation director Amit Shadman. (Xinhua/JINI/Daniel Bar-ON)