ISRAEL: ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND SKELETON OF MAN STABBED 3,700 YEARS AGO

Record ID: 399722

  • Title: ISRAEL: ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND SKELETON OF MAN STABBED 3,700 YEARS AGO
  • Date: 20th August 1992
  • Summary: RISHON LETZION, ISRAEL (AUGUST 20, 1992) 1. GV/GV TILT DOWN: BURIAL SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.11 2. SV: POLICEMAN LOOKS INTO GRAVE 0.15 3. GV: SKELETON 0.19 4. SV: POLICEMAN GOES DOWN TO GRAVE 0.27 5. SVS: SKELETON, POLICEMAN EXAMINES SKELETON (2 SHOTS) 0.33 6. SV ZOOM IN: SKELETON ZOOM IN TO KNIFE 0.37 7. SU: POLICEMAN E
  • Embargoed: 4th September 1992 13:00
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  • Location: RISHON LETZION, ISRAEL
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA1911LHNU8AMVQD17M4WSYBZRD
  • Story Text: Israeli police rushed to the scene of a murder south of Tel Aviv on Thursday (August 20) - but arrived 3,700 years too late.

    The skeleton of the murder victim, with a knife in its chest, was unearthed at a road paving site. Archaeologists said the man had probably been murdered during the Middle Bronze Age.

    The find was made in a large Middle Bronze Age cemetery (17th to 19th centuries Before Christ - BC), discovered during road-building at Rishon Letzion.


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