MembersNicholas on the Kibbutz

While he was working in his garden at Kibbutz Hazorea in the Jezreel Valley, Dekel Ben-Shitrit found a curious ring.

By Michael Selutin |
Photo: Israel Antiquity Authority

When he had cleaned the earth off it a pictorial representation of a human figure emerged. As he did not know what he was dealing with, Ben-Shitrit quickly posted photos of the ring on Facebook.

He could also have asked his neighbor, Dror Ben-Yosef, who works as a researcher for the Israel Parks Authority, and recognized that this could be a spectacular discovery. Ben-Yosef sent...

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